Around the time of my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary, I turned to my father at the dinner table one night and said, “It’s amazing, Dad–50 years, and you never once had an affair. How do you account ...

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work,” Toni Morrison wrote in 2004, after the re-election of George W. Bush. “Not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That’s our job!” ...

Netflix is known for its gripping true crime content, and the streamer’s next documentary will leave viewers’ heads spinning. In A Deadly American Marriage, a father-daughter duo defend killing the ...

Molly and Thomas pled no contest to voluntary manslaughter and were released from prison in 2024 In 2015, Jason Corbett was beaten to death by his wife of four years, Molly Martens, and her father, ...

Much has been said about love in literature. True love's first kiss will cure all. The greatest gift we have is love. Love is the most powerful magic. But Tayari Jones knows the truth: "How you feel ...

Oprah may not be ready to run for president, but she is ready to recommend another remarkable read to the horde of hungry book-lovers who have, time and time again, taken her suggestions to heart and ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: A Deadly American Marriage on Netflix is the latest true-crime documentary from the streamer, because if there’s one thing you can rely on in this crazy, mixed-up world, ...

In the mid-twentieth century, America’s marriage regime was legally restructured from a public to a private institution. Whereas at the American Founding marriage was itself a facet of public life ...

An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones (Algonquin). This powerful novel follows a young, upwardly mobile African-American couple in Atlanta as their marriage is falling apart. It’s a disaster not of ...

Oprah Winfrey announced the latest pick for her legendarily popular book club Tuesday: “An American Marriage,” the new novel by Tayari Jones. In a video on her website, Winfrey praised the novel, ...