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,…

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…