Love Letter: The Strongest Bone

This week’s stunning Modern Love essay is one of the most striking, human and moving essays I’ve had the pleasure of coming across in our ever-growing submission inbox. In “My Last Shopping List for Him,” Amalia Melis describes disinterring her husband’s bones, six years after a fatal nighttime fall cracked open his skull. In Greece,…

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A Flip Phone Keeps Me Sane

I started flirting with the idea of getting a flip phone while watching a TikTok livestream of someone shaving a grape at 2 a.m. It was a new low. After years spent tracking trends and celebrity outfits in my job at Vogue, the constant work day scrolling for new material on social media had metastasized…

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Umbria by Train

Calling itself the green heart of Italy, the landlocked region of Umbria is known for its truffles and olive oil, roast pork and sausage, wine and cheese. It also has great cultural riches — many of them in hill towns like Orvieto, Perugia and Assisi. You can admire the brilliant reliefs and mosaics on the…

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