Books & arts
11 March 2026
Romantic love gets all the headlines, says writer Andrew O’Hagan, but just as often it is friendship that describes the shape of our lives
Books & arts
19 September 2025
Can relationships between academics and their students be defended?
Books & arts
5 September 2025
How did female friendship become subject to suffocatingly high standards?
Books & arts
8 November 2023
What was lost when breach-of-promise cases could no longer be taken to court?
Books & arts
17 July 2023
Philosopher Clare Carlisle chronicles the interaction of George Eliot’s public and private lives
Books & arts
12 September 2022
Katrina Marson brings a dual perspective to her argument in favour of comprehensive sex education
Essays & reportage
2 August 2021
When and why did friendship slide down our hierarchy of relationships?
From the archive
15 September 2009
What makes Americans so prone to marrying, and remarrying?