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 ...

This essay presents an unpublished meditation on friendship by Henry Percy (1564–1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland. In contrast to early modern writers who celebrated an idealized vision of perfect ...

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, ...

“We’re all different, and I think we’ve forgotten that that’s OK.” Those were the words that Ellen DeGeneres used to defend herself after people became outraged by a picture of her sitting next to ...

Compared to others, I have a strict interpretation of the meaning of “friendship.” For some people, the question of whether they are friends with someone might be a quick yes, without hesitation, ...

There's an arc toward the end of PEN15's first season in which inseparable besties Maya and Anna get into a passive-aggressive fight that nearly leads to the dissolution of their friendship. The hurt ...

Listening to "Crowded Table," a song about women coming together to lift each other up by The Highwomen (a supergroup made up of Maren Morris, Amanda Shires, Brandi Carlile, and Natalie Hemby), I ...

SEAVILLE – The Seaville meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as Quakers, recently recognized county students in grades 6-8 who submitted essays about how they could promote peace ...