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July 9, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Byron Donalds’s Ex-Wife Exposes the Top Trump Ally’s Shocking Lies
Bisa Hall accused her ex-husband of lying to get ahead.
April 23, 2024
MagazineLaura Kipnis
The Liberating Frankness of the Divorce Memoir
New books from Leslie Jamison and Lyz Lenz exude the glow of hard-won independence.
June 28, 2022
Jennifer Wilson
How to Lose a Guy in the Gilded Age
Uncovering the resort where rich women sought the elusive right to divorce
January 26, 2018
Rachel Syme
The Reinvention of Divorce
With the help of former “Sex and the City” writers, Sarah Jessica Parker shines in the show’s second season.
February 20, 2015
Alice Robb
Don't Worry, Julianne Moore's Marriage Is Safe. The Oscar Curse Is a Myth.
February 5, 2015
Alice Robb
In Israeli Divorce, "The Man Has All the Power"
Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz discuss their critically acclaimed film.
July 18, 2014
Alice Robb
Unhappy Marriages May Produce More Daughters
Upending a decades-long assumption that having daughters can lead to higher rates of divorce
April 25, 2014
Helen Croydon
It's Time to Ditch Monogamy
Swans and beavers mate for life. Humans not so much.
June 6, 2013
Julia Ioffe
The Bizarre End to Vladimir Putin's Bizarre Marriage
Hunting season's open: The Russian president is officially a stag
May 3, 2013
David Thomson
'What Maisie Knew': Is the Kid Alright?
This twenty-first century Henry James update is too cute by half.

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