1+ hour, 41+ min ago  (247+ words) At 6. 58 p. m. on 30 April 2024, Siri Hustvedt's husband of 43 years, the novelist Paul Auster, died of cancer in the library of their Brooklyn home. He was surrounded by family, including his adored daughter Sophie, who three months earlier had given birth to…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (298+ words) Most of the characters in Friends end up married or expecting to marry. Even most of the side characters end up coupled up. Dating today is very different. Marriage rates are falling much faster than anyone realises. If you were…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (546+ words) The Spectator Australia Why doesn't the Church want us to get married? I got married last year and was shocked to find that it would be more than three times as expensive to get married in the church as it…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (909+ words) Last year, it was revealed that Australia's fertility rate had sunk to 1. 48 children per woman, the lowest figure in over one hundred years. In 2014, the figure had been 1. 8. The rate of decline is noteworthy. The fertility rate needs to be…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (672+ words) It's 1796, and an idealistic young English doctor, Duval Harlington, just released from La Force prison in revolutionary Paris, learns that his father is dead. He is now Lord Harlington" His capricious father's will leaves a young English doctor needing to…...