Tours for the Swimming-Obsessed

During the pandemic, when Miriam Leitko couldn’t swim because pools were closed, the lifelong swimmer built a lap pool at her home in Willis, Texas. As soon as travel restrictions were lifted in 2021, she signed up for a weeklong trip to Hawaii with SwimVacation, a Maine-based tour operator that specializes in open-water swimming. “Open-water…

Love Letter: A Second Skin to Escape Racism

“On gay dating apps, East Asians routinely face dehumanization that reduces us to nothing more than featureless clones in the eyes of others,” Preston Gyuwon So writes in this week’s Modern Love essay. “We either get the racist ‘no Asians’ or ‘no rice’ cold shoulder, or we get fawning treatment that can feel worse —…

What’s in a Screenshot?

Last weekend, Sarah Brady, a semiprofessional surfer, posted a number of screenshots of text messages she claims she exchanged with her then-boyfriend, the actor Jonah Hill. In one of the texts, Hill appears to dictate a highly specific list of “boundaries for romantic partnership,” which included not surfing with men, not maintaining friendships with “women…