With Her New Book, ‘Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar,’ Katie Yee Slyly Updates the Divorce Novel

In Katie Yee’s debut novel, Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar, the titular Maggie is two things at once: the white woman Yee’s unnamed Chinese…

‘The Gilded Age’: The Disastrous, Society-Shifting Divorce of William K. and Alva Vanderbilt

In The Gilded Age season three, tensions are high between George and Bertha Russell. While in past seasons, George has been tolerant of Bertha’s social schemings, he seems to have…

The 18 Best Divorce Movies to Watch Now

“Kramer vs. Kramer wouldn’t be half as good as it is—half as intriguing and absorbing—if the movie had taken sides,” Roger Ebert observed in 1979. Helmed by director and screenwriter…