A Woman Escapes Her Marriage by Turning into a Forest
Maru Ayase’s novel "The Forest Brims Over" explores the gendered exploitation of being an artist's muse
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After Escaping An Abusive Marriage, My Former Life Feels Like Another Universe
As time passes, I feel more and more like I have someone else’s memories rattling around inside my head
Aug 10 2023 - Naomi Forte
Maggie Smith Finds Beauty in the Dissolution of Her Marriage
The poet on her memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful" and letting go without forgiving
Jul 10 2023 - Hoda Mallone
In Real Life Arranged Marriage is No Joke
Devi S. Laskar considers the love and luck in her family’s legacy of arranged marriages
Nov 17 2022 - Devi S. Laskar
A Marriage as Bleak as a Beach Town in Winter
"The Cape" from THE ISLANDS by Dionne Irving, recommended by CJ Hauser
Nov 2 2022 - Dionne Irving
Unlike Miss Havisham, I Chose To End My Marriage
How Charles Dickens’ beloved character gave me permission to take back and rebuild my life
Jan 27 2022 - Shannon Azzato Stephens
Fighting for My Marriage Came at Too High a Cost
The writings of Mary Oliver and May Sarton prepared my mother, and then me, to leave our husbands
Dec 9 2021 - Sara B. Franklin
The Last Story in a Long Marriage
"The Great Escape" from TODAY A WOMAN WENT MAD IN THE SUPERMARKET by Hilma Wolitzer, recommended by Roxana Robinson
Aug 25 2021 - Hilma Wolitzer
The Moment That Breaks a Marriage
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of "Good Company," on the turning point that no one sees coming
May 25 2021 - Carrie V. Mullins
Five Years of Marriage Threatened by One Line of Poetry
"Mrs. Spring Fragrance" by Sui Sin Far, originally published in 1912, recommended by C Pam Zhang
