Devorah Baum

My latest book, On Marriage, crosses serious research with more creative elements. It came out with Hamish Hamilton for Penguin Random House in the UK in May 2023 and with Yale University Press in the US in October 2023 (with forthcoming publications for CITIC in China among other territories). The book is an enquiry into the idea and practice of marriage today, combining philosophy, cultural criticism, psychoanalysis and memoir, and analysing how a conservative and patriarchal institution might also contain unexpectedly radical possibilities. Named one of the best books of 2023 by both The New Yorker and Kirkus Reviews, it was launched at the LRB Bookshop in conversation with Hisham Matar, and in the US at McNally Jacksons in conversation with Orna Guralnik. It has also led to numerous podcasts (e.g. for NPR, for Berkeley, for Interintellect, for Adelaide Writers Week) as well as op-eds (e.g. for the Guardian), essays, extracts, and many other public interviews, festival appearances, and scholarly events.