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Memoir

Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost Hers

March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 - by Minelle Mahtani

Not long after I started my job as a radio host, my mother told me she had tongue cancer

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Fiction / January/February 2020

Saturday Project

January 3, 2020March 27, 2020 - by P.N. Van Den Bosch

It’s true: Laura listens well and says just enough at the right times. Geoff has even seen her do this and thought nothing of it. Still, he senses an undertone in Marcus’s gratitude

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First Person

Yes, It’s Okay to Break Up with a Good Man

May 15, 2018April 21, 2020 - by Kelli María Korducki

Why are women still told that romantic relationships need to be preserved at all costs?

Cover Story / Feature / March 2017

Dating While Black

February 15, 2017February 12, 2021 - by Hadiya Roderique

What I learned about racism from my online quest for love

Books

What Was the Spinster?

May 13, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Jessica Johnson

Kate Bolick, modern love, and being alone forever

A bed with cement blocks on top of the mattress

Feature / September 2014

Just Do It

September 18, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Micah Toub

Sex researchers have found a new way to keep the spark alive

July/August 2008 / Technology

Skype Love

July 12, 2008December 5, 2019 - by Jonathan Garfinkel

Are we drawn closer by being farther away?

December 2004/January 2005 / Feature

The Mystery of Marriage

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Wendy Dennis

Half of modern unions end in divorce or separation. Is it just us? Or does the institution itself need to be reconsidered?