Culture
Domestic and Epic
The Meet Market
Davos Boy
Huck and Jim and Law
There is a story about the University of Chicago economist who complained in a seminar that he did not have any friends. “Buy one!" came a call from the back. A similar response will greet Ethan J. Leib’s new book, which argues that friendship should be promoted as a matter of public policy and subjected to legal regulation. If you think that friendship should be legally regulated, you just don’t understand friendship. READ MORE >>
The Thirty-One Words
Urban Legend
In Odessa, you can smell Europe.” Or so said the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Like so many others who spoke of this place, he misspoke, or at least he stretched the truth. That trait is one of the city’s best-known commodities. READ MORE >>
Namaste or Not
Hatha Yoga means the union of opposites, and Claire Dederer had a lot of opposites to forge back into a whole. In her twenties, she hopscotched around the world, driving a forklift in Australia, touring Southeast Asia, taking a leisurely decade to finish college. “Work” in those days meant earning just enough to pay for pitchers of beer and cover charges at clubs. READ MORE >>
