Married at First Sight relies on cruelty
Even before the BBC’s damning exposé, it was clear the “blind marriage” experiment had failed
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Who is Frankenstein’s Bride?
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new film follows a long history of men reanimating women
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Female depravity isn’t feminist
Saratoga Schaefer’s Trad Wife is trying to make a political point about domestic submission
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The Ten Year Affair made me hate myself
Erin Somers’ adultery novel is targeted at downwardly mobile, media-adjacent millennials
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Jeff Bezos’s Venetian wedding is a pageant of bad taste
As it should be.
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What the left and right get wrong about the politics of family
Marriage, children and what constitutes the good life have become America’s most divisive culture war.
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The perils of polyamory
Molly Roden Winter’s riveting, explicit memoir More makes the case for open marriage as self-help – but her logic is…
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Is a feminist marriage possible?
A new history takes in everything from ancient Roman weddings to Don’t Tell the Bride to ask: can we redefine…
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The aspirations of Agnes Callard
Her philosophy of marriage is an ethical dead end.
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Stefan Golaszewski’s Marriage is a stone-cold masterpiece
Nicola Walker and Sean Bean are both marvellous in this realistic, empathetic BBC drama portraying an ordinary, loving couple
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The marriage delusion
A new memoir describes it as “a slowly unfolding apocalypse”. Why are we so reluctant to reimagine matrimony?
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