You probably send dozens of text messages a week. But do any of them truly deepen your friendships? For many people, the answer is no. “We’re constantly receiving and exchanging information, and ...

My friendships exist in silos. Each hangout is a feverish one-on-one where we share fries and eye contact, confessions, rants, gossip, and mutual attempts at amateur therapy. This patchwork of ...

Roshambo opened in late 2022 as a modern diner in Peachtree Battle, with a “diner’s diner” tagline, breakfast-for-dinner options, and a juke box in back. The first 90 days were strong—so strong that ...

The Friend necklace promises constant companionship and understanding. But this isn’t friendship—it’s a soulless, cynical way to prey on our loneliness and fear. An advertising campaign for the ...

Friend, a tech start-up that’s selling an AI companion in the form of a pendant, has become the subject of arguably the year’s most controversial ad campaign (and in the wake of recent denim ...

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Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who is realizing his friends may find his personality hard to take. By Lori Gottlieb Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and best-selling ...

Venice: Ildikó Enyedi’s trio of tales about plant communication across the ages provides few thrills but some elegant insights. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that “if a lion could ...

Focus Friend gamifies my attention in just the right ways. Focus Friend gamifies my attention in just the right ways. is a senior analyst, overseeing newsroom analytics. Zach joined Vox Media in 2021.

You don’t have to know every detail of your friend’s relationship to sense that something’s…off. Maybe your bestie shrugs off her partner’s frequent texts like they’re no biggie (“He just worries when ...

Every friend group has a "dad friend." But the best part? You don't even have to be a dad. In fact, being the dad friend actually has nothing to do with your age, gender, or parental status. But on a ...