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relationships
Books & arts
Friends like these
Alecia Simmonds
5 September 2025
How did female friendship become subject to suffocatingly high standards?
Books & arts
Blighted affections
Marian Quartly
8 November 2023
What was lost when breach-of-promise cases could no longer be taken to court?
Books & arts
Sense and sensibility
Sara Dowse
17 July 2023
Philosopher Clare Carlisle chronicles the interaction of George Eliot’s public and private lives
Books & arts
Pleasure and intimacy
Alecia Simmonds
12 September 2022
Katrina Marson brings a dual perspective to her argument in favour of comprehensive sex education
Essays & reportage
Friends with benefits
Alecia Simmonds
2 August 2021
When and why did friendship slide down our hierarchy of relationships?
From the archive
The American way of marriage
Sara Dowse
15 September 2009
What makes Americans so prone to marrying, and remarrying?