The Woman Who Wanted to Live Alone and Die Alone

A myth-busting masterpiece, published in The New Yorker

Photo by William Krause on Unsplash

In a world awash with matrimania and the easy story lines it suggests, it is startling to find something, even in the most prestigious of publications, that dispenses with the romantic clichés and tells a whole different story. Sometimes I need to reach back years to find something like…