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Ancient Wisdom: How Do We Want to Be Remembered?
After my auto accident, I began to understand the true nature of legacy. It wasn’t about the titles and the awards. It was about the lives I had…
George Raveling
Is There Love After Marriage?
Reality is particular, and the story of your marriage will lie in the particular ways you wake up from the dream of love. At least according to Taylor…
Agnes Callard
I Taught My 3-Year-Old to Read ‘The Hobbit’
You can teach very little children to read. I did. You just need to pretend like you’re in the 1700s.
Erik Hoel
Falling in Love on the Back of a Motorcycle
My whole life, I’ve wanted to feel what it’s like to fly. This is the closest I’ve come.
Agnes Callard
Things Worth Remembering: Without Forgetting, It Is Impossible to Live
Eight months after my home burned down in the LA fires, I can say that, with rare exception, lost stuff is best never thought about again.
Meghan Daum
The Chaotic Glory of Growing Up
All the teenagers who are afraid to become adults need to watch ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty.’ It’s a blissful reminder that coming of age is incredible…
Larissa Phillips
My Parents, Their Sperm Donor, and Me
When I discovered in my 30s that my parents had needed a sperm donor, I couldn’t understand why they had kept this a secret from me. Now I know: It was…
Lauren Silva Laughlin
The Bride of ‘Chinese Frankenstein’—and the Race to Make Designer Babies
I’ve spent hours talking to the ‘Chinese Frankenstein’ who says he’s opening a lab in Austin. His competition, in his quest to pioneer gene editing in…
Johanna Berkman
Bari’s Picks: Gen-Z Takeover
All the stories you need to read to understand what the people born between 1997 and 2013 are up to—told by the ones living it.
Sascha Seinfeld
‘Together’ Is a Scary Proposition
The hottest new body horror movie explores millennials’ deepest fear: intimacy
Kat Rosenfield
The Case for Dating Abundance
Incels hate women, ‘heterofatalists’ hate men. What if everyone chilled out?
Suzy Weiss
Welcome to the Emotional Labor Camp
Millennial women are complaining that their boyfriends talk too much about their feelings. It’s called ‘mankeeping.’
Kat Rosenfield
Reviewing Men? There’s an App for That.
Straight women are using America’s most-downloaded dating app to anonymously critique potential partners. Men have reacted by publicly humiliating…
River Page
Ancient Wisdom: At 96, I Still Live a Great Life
Do I think of death at my age? Of course I do. Then again, I think of Moses, who lived to be 120. That gives me some hope.
Jack Miller
The Man Pushing 100
Jack Miller on success in America, charity at scale, and his biggest regret.
Suzy Weiss
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Suzy Weiss: Ozzy Osbourne Was America’s Dad
Plus: New York Times readers are annoyed with a guy for talking to his MAGA relative. A Netflix original so bad people are saying AI wrote the dialogue…
Suzy Weiss
On Pilgrimage with 20,000 Young Catholics
‘Tradition is the only safe future we have,’ says a 24-year-old, on the way to Chartres Cathedral. ‘What are you going to build your life on, if not…
Rod Dreher
Why My Generation Is Bad at Partying
An invite app made it easier to throw parties. It also made them worse.
Sascha Seinfeld
The Coldplay Couple Did Something Bad. The Internet Did Something Worse.
The original function of public shaming was to keep the bonds of community strong. Now, it’s a spectator sport.
Kat Rosenfield
Should Your Husband Tie Your Shoes?
There’s a social media trend where women boast about their boyfriends tying their shoelaces for them. People are saying it’s dangerously unfeminist. I…
Kat Rosenfield
Nobody Has a Personality Anymore
My generation is obsessed with treating every trait as a symptom of a disorder. You’re not shy, you’re autistic. You’re not forgetful, you’ve got ADHD.
Freya India
What ‘Love Island’ Gets Right About Dating
In an age of romantic apathy, ‘Love Island’ succeeds where modern dating fails.
Sascha Seinfeld
Radical Honesty Has Come for the Boob Job
In the era of destigmatizing everything, perhaps the only thing wrong with a $200,000 facelift is not acknowledging your privilege in being able to get…
Kat Rosenfield
She Lost Her Husband. I Lost My Wife. Now We’re a Couple.
Love’s more complicated the second time around. The sweetness doesn’t erase the sorrow. The feelings coexist. We have each lost the love of our life…
Marty Goldensohn
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