Tag: love

“Although the world has made space for more diverse women, we are still expected to fill the role of the one who wants to be loved, to be a mother when perhaps we only ever wanted to paint, to write, to explore the world alone, on our own terms.”

Ella Dawson learns about the perils of break-up sex the hard way.

Jacqueline Alnes shares her own dating app experiences and nine stories about the pitfalls of finding a partner online.

In recent novels, Ocean Vuong and Nicole Dennis-Benn tell stories in which young queer characters affected by migration and displacement are worthy of seeing themselves reflected in others.

When she dipped her heart into someone else’s relationship, Emily Lackey discovered how to define love on her own terms.

There are the marks lovers leave on trees and rocks, and the marks lovers leave on each other.

Never eat pot chocolate on a third date, and other lessons about love.

Jacqueline Alnes brings us eight stories on love in its many-splendored guises.

My on-again, off-again love affair with Engelbert Humperdinck.

A declaration of dependence, excerpted from Briallen Hopper’s new essay collection.

“All you needed to do,” Springsteen says, “was to risk being your true self.” We ignore our demons at our peril.

Insomnia is not just a state of sleeplessness, a matter of negatives. It involves the active pursuit of sleep. It is a state of longing.

“It is so essential to morale that army and ­navy officers of the highest rank list mail almost on a level with munitions and food.”

Allie Zenwirth falls in love within the confines of an all-male Chasidic school.

“Play like a man, look like a lady.” At Narratively, Britni de la Cretaz looks at the history of lesbianism in early pro women’s baseball and at the beautiful love stories that the movie “A League of Their Own” chose to ignore.

When you live alongside anything for a long time — any person, any character, any narrative structure, any screen flicker — you become a part of it and it becomes a part of you.

In this intimate and moving essay, Gabrielle Bellot decides she needs to stop allowing others to define her.

Elizabeth Flock on the years she spent studying other people’s marriages in Mumbai.

Essayist Leslie Jamison visits Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships.

Dating after a Big Love ends never feels quite right. What do big loves leave us with, and what do they take?

Diana Spechler recalls fleeing her life in New York City for a new one with a painter in his village in central Mexico.

“Once, when I was sick for a long time and too weak to eat, she chewed my food for me and put the small pieces in my mouth to swallow.”

Veteran music journalist Michael Gonzales reflects on a long love affair and Prince’s deep, varied catalogue of hits.

New technology and information access in the Philippines is shifting the online-dating power dynamic from Western men to Filipina women.

Alexander Chee didn’t realize that his boyfriend, M., was pretending to be someone content to be monogamous.

Noah Cho ruminates on why his blond, all-American mother chose his “barely bilingual” Korean father.

“Under the influence of Leonard Cohen’s words, Germaine Greer’s polemic, and [Anais] Nin’s lies, I believed that sexual rapture was the key to connection through chaos.”

BuzzFeed has a touching, intimate excerpt of Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me, Bill Hayes’s memoir of his relationship with late neuroscientist and author Oliver Sacks. 10-13-16 I, soaking in the bath, O on the toilet, talking, talking about what he’s been thinking and writing — short personal pieces, for a memoir perhaps. He […]

Breaking up is hard to do.

At Lenny, read an excerpt of Ayelet Waldman’s memoir of LSD microdosing, A Really Good Day.