Now comes On Friendship, a short and incisive meditation, in which the Scottish novelist Andrew O’Hagan writes: “I believe ...

We have all heard the math about healing after a romantic breakup. Half the length of the relationship should mend you right up, they say. If you were together for four years, you need to be ready to ...

FIRST LOVE: Essays on Friendship. By Lilly Dancyger. Dial Press. 224 pages. $28. Who means more to you — your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays, Lilly ...

It is a sweet little essay, perhaps inspiring one to try an essay oneself. Nearly 400 years later (March 1979), Psychology Today surveyed friendship and its counterpart, loneliness. Forty thousand ...

Here’s the next installment of our series, “Fast-Told Tales,” short essays (200 words or fewer) about various topics by readers of the Fast Forward newsletter. The April theme was friendship. My twin ...

I would love to meet Laura Lippman’s friend Nancy. Apparently, she is Lippman’s closest friend who has very specific friendship limits — “Nancy simply could not help me commit a crime … [she] won’t ...

In his memoir/manifesto, the author suggests the close relationships we make with peers shape our lives By Michael Kalisch As a boy growing up in working-class suburban North Ayrshire, Andrew O’Hagan ...

The New England Quarterly, founded in 1928, is best described by its subtitle, A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters. Through major essays, memoranda and edited documents, ...

One of my favorite monuments looks like it belongs to a married couple. Draped in marble flowers and guarded by fat cherubs, it features two stone portraits joined by a knotted cloth, and script that ...

Friends are important. We know that. But many middle-aged men report few friends and “feelings of isolation and loneliness” according to the Guardian (2023), which invites men to tell how they made ...