Modern Love (Times Column)

November 6, 2019

Zawe Ashton Reads ‘The Triangle’s Sharpest Point’

Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher More than 30 years ago, Ingrid Maitland […]
November 1, 2019

Love Letter: Are You a Good Friend?

Love Letter is a weekly email about relationship highs, lows and woes. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Friday. Let’s face it, […]
October 22, 2019

Tiny Love Stories: ‘That Poor Pumpkin Needs Someone to Love It’

When Shame Leads to Kindness My mother and I were driving through Detroit when we stopped at a light and noticed a blind man attempting to […]
October 21, 2019

Meet the Man Who Draws Love Notes for The Times

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. For nearly a decade, Brian Rea, […]
October 18, 2019

Love Letter: The Modern Love TV Series is Here!

This week in Love Letter, we want to help you plan your binge-watching weekend. If you’re looking for a new show to add to your queue […]
October 18, 2019

25 Modern Love Essays to Read if You Want to Laugh, Cringe and Cry

New to Modern Love? These 25 essays should provide a good introduction. You’ll find some of our most read and most shared of all time, and […]
October 16, 2019

Marisa Tomei Reads ‘He’s Going Back to His Former Wife. Sort Of.’

Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher If your spouse’s dying wish was to […]
October 15, 2019

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It Was Unsettling to Find Myself Still Single at 36’

More Than I Imagined My son’s first love, at 15, was not what I imagined for him. She came from a family scarred by drug abuse […]
November 13, 2017

Modern Love: The Secret of Modern Love

Advertisement “She dumped me.” That’s the first line of the first Modern Love column, published on Oct. 31, 2004, and it’s a tale of heartbreak, obsession […]