For much of recorded history, marriage was rooted in wealth, social standing and livestock. “Marriage was too vital an economic and political institution to be entered into solely on the basis of ...

Two new books — one for discerning the right spouse, another for deepening your marital vows — offer Catholics practical wisdom and spiritual support on the path to lifelong love. Book covers of ‘A ...

Time was when some of the gamiest reading this side of Paris was to be found in the instructive pages of the marriage manuals. “In this little book,” says the preface to the 1939 edition of Married ...

First, the book. It is unabashedly conservative and complementarian. Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll, founder of Mars Hill Church, falls into the “soft patriarchy” camp, a phrase that he himself uses.

“Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings.” So says Dorothea Brooke, the heroine of George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” a novel that explores the many ...

FATHER AND I—Kazuo Koizumi— Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). One of the most interesting of minor U. S. writers, Lafcadio Hearn has never been widely read, nor has his strange career been fully and deeply ...