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He Had to Leave So I Could Breathe

She liked her love life as it was. So why did this new man make her feel so vulnerable?

By Jane Bauer

Tiny Love Stories: ‘You Can’t Escape Heartbreak or Capitalism’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.

Listen: Carmen Ejogo Reads ‘What the Sea Took Away, a Daughter Restores’

On this week’s Modern Love podcast, the “True Detective” actor reads an essay about the redemptive power of storytelling.

Tracking the Demise of My Marriage on Google Maps

Pictures taken from a car-mounted camera can’t reveal what goes on behind closed doors.

By Maggie Smith

Listen: Gillian Anderson Reads ‘Maternal Wisdom (5 Pounds’ Worth)’

On this week’s Modern Love podcast, the “Sex Education” actor reads an essay about the effect of a “flour-sack baby” named Fumiko.

When Cultural Circles Are Expanded and Redrawn

She was raised in a conservative Muslim community in Oregon; he was a Roman Catholic born and raised in Vermont.

By Vincent M. Mallozzi

They Married at City Hall (But Didn’t Toss the Bouquet)

Three couples share their stories after marrying on a December day at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau, where the brides also rented their flowers.

By Alix Strauss

How Did They Know? (The Signs Showed the Way)

So many clues before they finally took notice of what was right in front of them.

By Jane Gordon Julien

Always in Search of Happy Endings

A young couple, both college students, dive in to help her family in time of need. Their selflessness is noticed. A Disneyesque wedding story follows.

By Tammy La Gorce

She Proposed That He Be Her Caddie. They’ve Worked to Avoid the Rough.

Jean Chua first asked Wesley Griswold to join her on the L.P.G.A. Tour, but he was not a pandering caddie, or boyfriend, and that didn’t always sit well.

By Linda Marx

‘When I Skate It Just Feels Free’

Figure Skating in Harlem helps young women of color see themselves on ice.

By Flo Ngala, Lovia Gyarkye and Eve Lyons

What It Means to Dress in Lagos

In Nigeria’s largest city, boundary-breaking style pushes up against tradition and social conservatism.

By Jan Hoek, Stephen Tayo, Ayodeji Rotinwa and Eve Lyons

The New Punks of Los Angeles

In the city’s outlying areas, Latino teenagers are shaping a new music scene.

By Daniel Jack Lyons, Cenan Pirani and Eve Lyons

A Place I Could Call My Own

On growing up in the Bronx, and never truly leaving it.

By Andre Wagner, Andrew Boryga and Eve Lyons

An ‘Ancestral Memory’ Inscribed in Skin

In Alaska and other areas of the circumpolar north, women have been working in the last decade to revitalize a tattooing tradition.

By Ash Adams and Eve Lyons

The Death of the Sick Day

For many office workers, “working from home” has replaced a day spent recovering under the covers.

By Steven Kurutz

How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage

CBD? Check. Bubbles? Check. Ironic fonts? Check. The aggressive marketing of commodified wellness? Oh yes.

By Kate Carraway

Laura Harrier’s Awards Season Beauty Secrets

Here’s how the “BlacKkKlansman” star survives the back-to-back red carpets.

By Bee Shapiro

How to Hold Healthy Grudges

Grudges can be good. They are one habit that humans have evolved to keep ourselves from the pain of breakups and also from eating mozzarella sticks for every meal.

By Jolie Kerr

It’s Called a Butterfly Party and You’re Invited

Also in attendance will be my ex-girlfriend, a Mariah Carey impersonator and five butterflies, which I will release. Then I will emerge from a giant sac, 40 pounds lighter.

By Danielle Thomson

Laura Harrier’s Awards Season Beauty Secrets

Here’s how the “BlacKkKlansman” star survives the back-to-back red carpets.

By Bee Shapiro

How Skin-Care Companies Are Tackling Issues Faced by Women of Color

There are plenty of foundation shades on the market now, but women of varied skin tones often need different skin-care products, too.

By Bee Shapiro

This Winter, Don’t Just Sit by a Crackling Fire. Smell Like It, Too.

Log cabin perfumes are here to make your winter extra cozy.

By Rachel Syme

Felicity Jones on Becoming Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Find out the actress’s beauty tips, and how she transformed into the Supreme Court justice for “On the Basis of Sex.”

By Bee Shapiro

It’s Holiday Time. You’re Not Supposed to Look Natural.

Three ways to shine at a year-end bash.

By Crystal Martin

Kit Keenan, Daughter of Cynthia Rowley, Starts Her Own Fashion Line

The brand, KIT, includes affordable wardrobe staples like hoodies, T-shirts and a little black dres.

By Ann Binlot

A Yeezy Alum Who Now Designs for Versace

Salehe Bembury dreams up the opulent fashion sneakers sought after by hypebeasts and art stars.

By Alex Hawgood

Young Star of ‘White Boy Rick’ Was Discovered in the Principal’s Office

Richie Merritt, 17, makes his acting debut opposite Matthew McConaughey in a crime drama. A second movie is already lined up.

By Bee Shapiro

A Tech Wunderkind Who Knows Jaden Smith and Elon Musk

Iddris Sandu has written code for Instagram and Twitter, and counts Barack Obama as a fan.

By Alex Hawgood

Jewelry From His Dorm Room to Barneys

Jameel Mohammed is the founder of Khiry, a jewelry collection inspired by the African diaspora.

By Lovia Gyarkye

Finding Female Friends Over 50 Can Be Hard. These Women Figured It Out.

“There were meet-ups that were generalized for those in their 20s, 30s and 40s, but there was nothing for older women,” said the founder of a group in Los Angeles. “And I didn’t want men.”

By Rozette Rago

Surfing Remade in the Rockaways

The Rockaways’ surf scene comes to reflect the area’s diversity and its history.

By Michael Adno

As Manhattan’s Chinatown Changes, Food Vendors Keep a Bit of the Old With the New

The population of Chinatown, one of Manhattan’s few historic immigrant working class neighborhoods, is shifting. How are the people in the food businesses there adjusting?

By Elaine Chen

Preserving Black American History Through Song in the Dominican Republic

For older community members, ranging in age from 80 to 104, passing down church hymns is a way to teach the youth about their rich and unique history.

By Walter Thompson-Hernández

Rwandan Women Paddle Into the Male World of Fishing

“Now a woman can say: ‘I can build a house by myself. I can look after my family properly. And even if my husband dies, we can live a better life.’”

By Shannon Sims, Holly Pickett and Clàudia Prat

Your Vagina Is Terrific (and Everyone Else’s Opinions Still Are Not)

One year ago I wrote about my vagina and men’s opinions of it. Things have not improved.

By Jen Gunter

Food, My Frenemy

My struggle with a binge eating disorder began at age 12. What followed were years of shame, lies, weight fluctuations and, at one particularly desperate moment, maternity clothes.

By Jen Gunter

Why I Wanted to Learn to Perform Abortions

With the future of contraception in question, looking back to recent history is instructive.

By Jen Gunter

Thank You for Not Eating Your Placenta

As an obstetrician and gynecologist, it’s hard to shock me. Or at least it used to be.

By Jen Gunter

Worshiping the False Idols of Wellness

Charcoal, “toxins” and other forms of nonsense are the backbone of the wellness-industrial complex.

By Jen Gunter

Inside the 2019 Golden Globes After-Parties

Rachel Brosnahan, Regina King, Timothée Chalamet and Jeff Bezos partied after the awards ceremony.

By Ben Widdicombe

Inside the 64th International Debutante Ball

This year’s 23 debutantes represented Belgium, England, France, Germany, India, Liechtenstein, Scotland and the United States.

By Denny Lee

For the Dogs

Benefits were held for Animal Medical Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Botanical Garden.

President Obama and Sugarplum Fairies

Benefits were held for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the New York City Ballet.

By Denny Lee

Joe Biden, Shailene Woodley and Andie MacDowell at Conservation International Gala

Benefits were also held for the Central Park Conservancy, and Food Allergy Research and Education.

By Denny Lee