It was early in the morning when I first ate toilet paper. My mother and my brother were still asleep. It tasted bad. I cried. I went for another bite. I needed the memory. I was 7 years old, and I knew I needed the memory. I didn’t eat the toilet paper because I wanted…
MoMA PS1’s beloved Warm Up party took a hiatus this season and was replaced by Summer Fridays, featuring D.J. sets in the courtyard from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Aug. 19 lineup featured Jenifa Mayanja and attracted a young, artsy crowd who looked effortlessly cool. Also that night, Guild Hall held its summer gala…
For Dr. Orna Guralnik, the plain-talking star psychologist of the Showtime series “Couples Therapy,” the lack of scientific evidence isn’t a deal breaker. “It’s what we call face validity — if it wasn’t useful for people, if it didn’t tap into something that matters, it would have disappeared,” she said. Many of the couples who…
Three months before Olga Lopatina and Emiliano Beltrami make their annual August pilgrimage to Mykonos, they start making reservations. They make sure to snag tables at Scorpios, a bohemian beach club set on the Aegean Sea, and Lío, the Greek island’s star-studded, cabaret-style restaurant. “We make reservations for six people even before we know which…
El mensaje que había temido durante años apareció en mi celular: “Busco a la hermana de mi paciente, Jay Friedman”. Durante la llamada telefónica que le siguió, el médico me dio una noticia nefasta. Mi hermano de 65 años, Jay, tenía cáncer de páncreas avanzado. Él y yo crecimos juntos en Divine Corners, Nueva York,…
His September cover features Linda Evangelista, who talks about her nightmarish experience with CoolSculpting, a procedure that she said left her “brutally disfigured,” with permanent bulges on her face and body. To achieve her luminous cover shot by Steven Meisel — whom Mr. Enninful called “the best of the best” — Ms. Evangelista said, the…
I have no doubt that this woman’s behavior is annoying, at best. I’m sorry you have to deal with such a hostile colleague. You should bring H.R. in if she is harassing you in the workplace, or if she is doing anything to impede your work or if she is allowing her possible homophobia to…
Most of the submissions we receive at Modern Love are about romantic relationships. That is far from a surprise, but it is a shame. Why? Well, because there are so many nonromantic relationships that are worth celebrating, condemning or, at the very least, discussing. (As the youngest of four children, I take pleasure in learning…
Chelsea White is a whole lot, in the best possible way. She is charming, self-deprecating, engrossing and describes herself on her website as a “host-writer-producer-speaker-comedian-cat enthusiast.” She developed a weekly Instagram live show, “What a Delight! with Chelsea White,” that involved a guest, a sidekick in a mask, and a discussion of weekly events that…
Zohar Hannah Fuller spent about a year inviting Maryse Shaina Pearce to events before Ms. Pearce finally attended one. “Some people might stop trying after the first few times, but I was very persistent,” said Ms. Fuller, who was then working for a theater company. The two first met in November 2011 at a mutual…