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Single People Deserve Work-Life Balance, Too
In every major city, people with and without children are quietly cobbling together more flexible schedules. We can all learn from their success.
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All the Single Ladies
Recent years have seen an explosion of male joblessness and a steep decline in men’s life prospects that have disrupted the “romantic market” in ways that narrow a marriage-minded woman’s options: increasingly, her choice is between deadbeats (whose numbers are rising) and playboys (whose power is growing). But this strange state of affairs also presents an opportunity: as the economy evolves, it’s time to embrace new ideas about romance and family—and to acknowledge the end of “traditional” marriage as society’s highest ideal.
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Marcos Chin A Death on Facebook
Intimacy and loss in the age of social media
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My Mother’s Dresses
Searching for the unattainable amid the comforting chaos of a bargain basement
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Interview
Enough with the good-girl shtick, says the novelist Mary Gordon, the author of The Atlantic's May short story.
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Facts & Fiction
A conversation with Carol Shields, the best-selling novelist and the author of The Atlantic's January short story.
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Facts & Fiction
For Peter Ho Davies, the author of The Atlantic's December short story, the challenge is to slip fiction into history, and vice versa.
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Facts & Fiction
A conversation with Elizabeth Stuckey-French
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Facts & Fiction
A conversation with Chitra B. Divakaruni
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Facts & Fiction
A conversation with Francine Prose
