Friendship
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I Found It: Reflections on Male Friendship November 06, 2025
I FOUND IT.These words were written in large black paint on the white wall of our yearbook office in high school. The phrase, both declarative and yet somehow hinting at things left unsaid, is sometimes brought up when I talk to my old friend Fletch....
Your Friend Is Not Your Friend October 17, 2025
Simon and Garfunkel once sang that “the words of the prophets are written on subway walls.” I’m not so sure about words of the prophets, but it is undeniable that the words written on subway walls — whether advertisement, graffiti, or both — yield de...
Female Friendship Novel in the Era of the Group Chat October 07, 2025
Just before giving birth in the summer of 2024, I joined a citywide “moms” group chat in Berlin. It was a digital confessional for the discussion of gestational sciatica or the inability to touch one’s toes, for descriptions of vaginal tearing during...
On Meeting Strangers August 08, 2025
Somewhere on the southern edge of Greece, on the island of Rhodes, a tall man with a sunburned face and a body as if sculpted by centuries of salt and wind stood at the helm of a little, ridiculous-looking steel boat called Yellow Submarine, advertis...
James Baldwin’s Love Stories August 06, 2025
It was 1996 and I was a junior in college, taking a class on James Baldwin in which we were reading pretty much everything he’d ever written: his groundbreaking novels, his controversial plays, his searing and celebrated essays. Everything, that is, ...
What Can We Learn From TV Shows About Friendship? June 06, 2025
In the last episode of FX’s new comedy series Adults, which follows a group of friends in their twenties, Paul Baker (Jack Innanen) gets a letter from the US government notifying him that his visa is expiring and that he must leave the US and go back...
The Misplaced Quest for Community June 06, 2025
Paul Rudd’s latest comedy Friendship has been a box office hit. While senses of humor differ among people as much as taste in food, the audience in the fairly packed theater where I saw it laughed together throughout, which was refreshing. ...
'Friendship' Is a Cringe Comedy About Ghastly Human Need June 05, 2025
Though an excruciating movie to watch, even by cringe comedy standards, Friendship is a popular indie film that’s gone into wide release.The feature debut of writer-director Andrew DeYoung, who’s mainly worked in television (Our Flag Means Death, Pen...
