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Ancient Wisdom: How I Lost My Balance—and How I Got It Back
I always thought I had my life in balance, until I became consumed with trying to help an alcoholic friend. ‘Saving’ her became my addiction—and my…
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
The Weekend Press: Who’ll Save Us From Scams?
Plus: Sascha Seinfeld on ‘Dance Moms.’ A Soviet dissident explains why he doesn’t eat chocolate cake. AI reaches No. 1 on the country music charts. A…
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Ancient Wisdom: I Didn’t Expect to End Up in Estonia
Studying the Estonian language requires niche devotion—it’s useless anywhere else. And an extrovert here is someone who looks at your shoes rather than…
Jim Heintz
The Weekend Press: Teenage Dreams
Plus: Suzy Weiss reviews Sydney Sweeney’s boxing biopic. Kat Rosenfield on why ‘Teen Vogue’ had to die. The legendary magazine writer Gay Talese recalls…
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Ancient Wisdom: What Friends Are For
Instead of parents, we have old age to rebel against, so we treasure our old friends, and seek younger friends to divert us from interminable talk of…
Rebecca Okrent
The Weekend Press: What a Man Should Know
Plus: Jailbird ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli is free, in love, and drinking draft beer with Suzy Weiss. Imagine Frankenstein’s monster, but sexy. The…
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Ancient Wisdom: Into the Woods
As a child, I went into the woods to escape a chaotic, sometimes violent home. The beauty I discovered there has become a source of pleasure and…
Lou Ureneck
The Weekend Press: Let Harper Lee Rest In Peace
Plus: Chris Christie reviews the new Springsteen biopic. Suzy Weiss meets the preppers who think stockpiling is dumb. Nellie Bowles has a favorite…
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Ancient Wisdom: How We Saved Our Marriage
For years, we looked like the perfect family. We weren’t. What saved us was honesty, therapy, and the decision to stay when leaving might’ve been…
Anne Roark and Marshall Goldberg
Welcome to The Weekend Press
Meet the girls who’ve found God in a podcast. Andrew Ross Sorkin explains how he does so many jobs at once. Suzy Weiss reviews the Victoria’s Secret…
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Ancient Wisdom: A Middle Digit to the Digital Age
Why do I have to put up with all these computer shortcuts, which usually turn out to be longcuts? Now in my late 80s, time is running out, and I have no…
Joseph Epstein
Second Thought: Julia Roberts’s #MeToo Movie Is Not Good
Plus: Melania is the Trump who really deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. And fiber is the new protein.
Suzy Weiss
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