Writing and Writers

March 6, 2024

‘Modern Love Podcast’: Novelist Celeste Ng on the Big Power of Little Things

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell, Pat McCusker and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify ‘I think there’s something about […]
January 5, 2024

In a Downtown New York Tradition, Cleansing the New Year With Poetry

On the first day of the year, over a thousand devotees passed through the old church where the Poetry Project has held its annual 12-hour marathon […]
December 11, 2023

David Yoon on How He Learned to Spend Money on Love

This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. I didn’t grow up in a romantic household. My parents […]
December 11, 2023

Melissa Febos on a Financially Controlling Boyfriend — and Girlfriend

This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. In my mid-20s, I was close to broke. Not struggling-to-keep-the-lights-on-broke, […]
September 17, 2023

The Stoic in the Bedroom

Learning to sleep under the stern gaze of Marcus Aurelius. “Absolutely not,” I told my husband from the bed as he tried to find the right […]
September 17, 2023

The Stoic in the Bedroom

Learning to sleep under the stern gaze of Marcus Aurelius. “Absolutely not,” I told my husband from the bed as he tried to find the right […]
July 25, 2023

Greta Gerwig on the Blockbuster ‘Barbie’ Opening (and How She Got Away With It)

“I think it was a particular ripple in the universe that allowed it to happen,” the director said on Tuesday of her highly anticipated movie making […]
June 27, 2023

Larry Kramer’s Memorial Brings Together Old Friends and Old Enemies

Tony Kushner and Anthony Fauci were among the speakers who fondly described difficult moments with the irascible writer and activist. Decades before Dr. Anthony S. Fauci […]
June 12, 2023

WW Norton, a Defiant Book Publisher, Throws a 100th Anniversary Party

Rita Dove, Michael Lewis and Richard Powers were among the authors who took part in a crowded, swinging party at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan. As the […]
June 8, 2023

A Drunken Canal Founder Has a New Venture to Save Indie Media: Byline

Gutes Guterman sat on an antique French farm bench in Pig Bar, a craft beer shop overlooking the scene-y slice of Lower Manhattan known as Dimes […]