Romance
The frailty of love
In the months before the outbreak of the first world war, Anton Heideck arrives in Vienna. Family life offered him…
Frolics and fossils
Ammonite is writer-director Francis Lee’s second film after God’s Own Country, one of the best films of 2017, and possibly…
One night in the backwoods
The man I met in the moose-hunters' bar, and what happened between us
Dating stinks
Why I went looking for love in the armpits of strange men
A leap in the dark
The first and most important thing to say about The Drowned Detective is that it’s a very good novel and…
Whatever happened to ‘Snog first, talk later’?
Sometimes I sit my nieces down and treat them to tales of dating in the dark ages, before iPhones arrived…
Your problems solved
Q. My husband-to-be and I both work full time. We are getting married from his family HQ and his kind…
Barometer
How many cheats? More data on members of extramarital dating site Ashley Madison were put online. How widespread is adultery?…
Mirror, mirror
The uglier the man, the more he demeans women
Barometer
Rogue traders Former UBS trader Tom Hayes was jailed for 14 years for rigging the Libor market. How long could…
Your problems solved
Q. Travelling on a train recently I happened to notice two former acquaintances, sitting together and very nearly opposite me,…
Your problems solved
Q. My partner, a leading political commentator on a national newspaper, recently agreed to shave off his hair at the…
The new rules of dating
An American stand-up comedian Aziz Ansari, who usually performs in Los Angeles and New York, has found time to conduct…
Tinder feelings
Can mobile dating apps move beyond the promise of a one-night stand?
Your problems solved
Q. Someone I was at university with but hadn’t seen much of over the ten years since invited me to…
Dear Mary
Q. I was not brought up in England and don’t appear in Who’s Who. This means that there is no…
Click and flick
Romance is being killed off by the brutal marketplace of dating apps such as Tinder
Singles match
The rise of ‘living apart together’ – and why I’ve stopped doing it
A pivotal moment on a Portuguese beach
I’m writing this from Portugal, where I’m staying with my old friend Sean Langan. His family has owned a farm…
Dear Mary
Q. What can you do when disorganised friends say they would love to come to a concert with you but…
The case for being wed
I’m due to speak at an Intelligence Squared debate on Saturday and I’m worried that I might be on the…
Porn-again parents
It’s not just the young whose expectations of sex are warped by dirty videos online
The freedom of the heat
Those of us who have been struggling to endure the recent heat should turn to L.P. Hartley’s classic coming-of-age novel The…
Swinging right
A lust that dare not speak its name
To the lighthouse
Elements of Raffaella Barker’s new novel, her eighth for adults, suggest commercial fiction: a narrative that oscillates between the aftermath…
