Mother’s Day, ‘Shrill’ and Philip Glass.Welcome. It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday, and some will be gathering in person with family for the first time in more than a year. It’s exciting! And maybe overwhelming. The emotions can be unexpected: Jorge Ramos had first date-style jitters before reuniting with ...
Read More

Listen and subscribe to Modern Love
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | StitcherPremiering Wednesday, May 12The Modern Love podcast is returning with a whole new season of love stories. Each year, Daniel Jones and Miya Lee, podcast co-hosts and editors of the Modern Love column, comb through thousands of essay ...
Read More

And how Thelma Golden and Isaac Mizrahi have stayed sane and creative during the pandemic.With the New York charity circuit still on hiatus, here is how some philanthropists and society figures are spending their time and resources.Sandra BernhardAge: 65Occupation: performer, actress, radio hostFavorite charity: Up2UsWhere have you been ...
Read More

For a new Netflix series, the actor dropped his lightsaber and picked up the cigarettes and scissors.When Ewan McGregor was but a wee lad in a sleepy town in Scotland in the ’70s, some 3,200 miles away in a Manhattan townhouse on East 63rd Street, Roy Halston Frowick ...
Read More

In 2014, Caitlin Kiernan was not interested in dating. But when a close friend suggested that she go out with Kenny Kaplan, their mutual appreciation for a children’s TV show sealed the deal.Two friends and a sea monster brought Caitlin Kiernan and Kenny Kaplan together. These were not ...
Read More

After the coronavirus surfaced, Jeremy Lizt and Deborah Breisblatt, who had dated for a few weeks, quarantined together. They passed the time walking around the Bay Area and falling in love.Deborah Breisblatt and Jeremy Lizt met on the Jewish dating app JSwipe in January 2020, when pandemic pods ...
Read More

How a ridiculous dance — several, actually — kept us connected through Covid.When I see my mother on the screen holding her hot-pink, one-pound dumbbells, I start playing “Circle of Life” by the singer she calls “Elton Johns.” We begin with shoulder rolls followed by arm circles, basic ...
Read More

Jerome Dixon, who always maintained his innocence during his 21 years in prison, met Raha Dixon two years ago at a talk about racism and social change.Jerome Dixon spent 21 years in prison for a murder he maintains he did not commit. Raha Lewis is a red carpet ...
Read More

A picture of two presidents and first ladies led to many Hobbit jokes online. We explain what happened.It was a pleasant 86 or so degrees in Plains, Ga., when President Biden and Jill Biden visited former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, at their home on ...
Read More

Asking the question is a start.Welcome. What would it take for you to flourish? To wake up eager to begin the day rather than burrow back into the covers? Flourishing — a combination of physical, emotional and mental well-being — is the opposite of languishing, that joyless blah ...
Read More

As Americans with disposable income start shopping again, an odd assortment of products like coffee makers, sofas and natural deodorant have become sudden hot properties.The definition of a luxury problem, according to Olivia Kraus, a lawyer in Mount Vernon, N.Y., is the inability to buy something expensive that ...
Read More

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Still Cooking Side by SideI fry cutlets for chicken parmigiana, doing math: In my 53 years, I have fried thousands. My mother taught me. When I was 7, we would fry chicken side by side, her ...
Read More

Jimmy Donaldson, 22, a YouTube megastar better known as Mr. Beast, operates six YouTube channels with names like MrBeast,MrBeast Shorts and Beast Reacts that together have 91 million subscribers. People have viewed his videos more than 13 billion times. And last year as the pandemic raged, he became ...
Read More

This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home.The latest home-related TikTok video to go viral begins with a woman’s voice patiently explaining that during the pandemic her husband turned their basement into … a video rental store ...
Read More