‘Is Friendship Becoming Obsolete?’: The Week 6 Winner of Our Summer Reading Contest
Alex Cox, 16, writes about the importance of human connection, especially for older people, in the age of artificial intelligence.
Is It Harder for Men and Boys to Make and Keep Friends?
Or does gender have little to do with our ability to have meaningful friendships?
International Day of Friendship: Courses to Study with a Buddy!
The 30th July is the United Nations’ International Friendship Day. The day is about taking some time to mark the friendships that define our lives and to actively celebrate the joys of friendship. It’s been a difficult 18 months for everyone and we’ve all relied on our friendships even more than usual to get us…
Friendship and Love
The images above illustrated a recent edition of the Modern Love column’s “Tiny Stories,” which is “Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.”What short story of love, friendship, family or any other kind of bonding can you tell? Our comment field gives you nearly 300 words, so you can…
Have You Ever Had a Significant Friendship End?
Have you ever ended a friendship — or had a friend end a relationship with you? If so, how did it happen? Do you still think about it? Do you wish it had ended differently, or not at all? In “How to End a Friendship,” Lauren Mechling writes that few relationships are meant to last…
