Adjusting to life in a new city, a couple was stung to learn that the only people they know in town, the husband’s childhood friends, didn’t invite them on a recent getaway.

I fear I’m on the road to serious isolation. Editor’s Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset ...

I’m typically quiet and mind my own business. But in recent weeks, I’ve been having conflicts with people over minor things.

Dear James, I have a literary crush. Since first encountering this woman’s work several years ago, I have read her sentences ...

A reader feels stung by her brother and his wife’s cooling to an idea that they had once seemed open to: hosting her once a month when she commutes to a faraway office job.

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. The first person is a narrative style as old as storytelling itself—one that, at its best, allows ...