Relationships Archives - The American Scholar

Marrying a Widow

By Phillip Lopate | 05/05/2017 |

Or, my spectral predecessor

Listening to Dinah

By Phillip Lopate | 04/21/2017 |

The complexity of “Don’t Explain”

Interstates

By Emily Bernard | 03/06/2017 |

How My Italian-American husband ate his way into the good graces of my African-American family

Homebodies

By Kyoko Mori | 12/05/2016 |

A life spent mainly in the company of cats has meant relishing the comforts of domesticity and solitude

The Last Bursts of Memory

By James VanOosting | 12/05/2016 |

As my father’s dementia progressed, the stories of his life became less accurate but more vivid

The Phaedra Syndrome

By André Aciman | 12/07/2015 |

Desire, denial, and the making of compelling TV

Two Girls, True and False

By William Deresiewicz | 07/04/2011 |