| The philosopher, who lives with her husband and her ex-husband, searches for what one human can be to another human.  Photograph by Elinor Carucci for The New Yorker In an illuminating piece in this week’s issue, Rachel Aviv profiles the philosopher Agnes Callard, who fell in love with her graduate student and married him—after divorcing her former husband, who, like Callard, is a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago. For the sake of raising her children, they all share the same home, spending “their life happily together—all three of them,” as one colleague puts it. Aviv interviews the unconventional family, and talks with Callard about what it means to be a good person and a good romantic partner, and what to do when one pursuit seems at odds with the other. The piece is about a philosopher’s endeavor to lead an honest life, but it’s also about the many shapes that marriage can take—and the precarity of a union between two people. What happens when, as Callard says, the “company of the person one once chased with breathless abandon loses its thrill, the frequency of both sex and vigorous conversation decreases, and living together becomes a matter of routine”? Listen to podcasts? We’d like to know your favorites. Take a brief survey » | 
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