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The GOP’s Next Target, According to Trump, Vance and Johnson? No-Fault Divorce and Women’s Right to Leave Violent or Unhappy Marriages

To keep a diary is to say, I am paying attention to my life, and I believe that it matters

After long days focused on the facts, our newsroom reads a lot of fiction at home. We asked our NPR colleagues what they've enjoyed reading so far this year. Here's what they told us.

From novels and short stories, to biography and history, leading authors recommend their favourite recent books and the ones they can’t wait to dive into

After long days focused on the facts, our newsroom reads a lot of fiction at home. We asked our NPR colleagues what they've enjoyed reading so far this year. Here's what they told us.

Amy Shearn discusses the adult coming-of-age story, AI dating, and queer freedom during Covid-19

Slowing down, living intentionally, and figuring out how to have a moment of goddamned peace and quiet. Plus: the best book launch day idea I've ever had.

Marcy Dermansky’s sixth novel, Hot Air, opens with a bang—or rather, a hot-air balloon crash. Writer and single mom Joannie is on a date with her neighbor Johnny when her childhood crush quite literal...

Messy women of the world…assemble!The very broad theme for this collection of books is messy women, and that can mean a lot of different things: wome...

“Don’t worry,” one of the other moms assured me when I joined the book group. “It’ll be a Slow-Readers Book Club. We’ll give ourselves, like, three months per book.” This sounded doable. I really d…

“Don’t worry,” one of the other moms assured me when I joined the book group. “It’ll be a Slow-Readers Book Club. We’ll give ourselves, like, three months per book.” This sounded doable. I really d…

Amy Shearn sees eerie connections between her current partner and the fictional one she created for her novel, long before they met.

March has already been a month of manias and mind-boggling political moments, and I feel, as perhaps everyone nodding to the madcap political moment does, like a broken record. Still, I’ll sa…

The world has stopped. But Rachel is just getting started… It’s spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside....

These writers redefine the conventional narrative of marital breakdown

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Twenty-two new releases that are worth the buzz (and then some).

The divorce memoir has experienced a resurgence with works that range from poetic to empowering to startlingly bitter about the whole institution of marriage. Here, a taxonomy of upcoming and recently published divorce books.

As the GOP ramps up its culture war, no-fault divorce is emerging as its latest target, with conservative politicians and activists calling for its restriction or elimination. While no-fault divorce h...

As the GOP ramps up its culture war, no-fault divorce is emerging as its latest target, with conservative politicians and activists calling for its restriction or elimination. While no-fault divorce h...