Dear Miss Manners: A friend of my wife’s always calls her using videoconferencing. Always. It’s as though she comes into the house uninvited, takes a seat and starts talking. My wife is from the South ...

I’ll be honest: I went in looking for a simple chocolate bar and walked out feeling like I’d just stepped through a wormhole into 1955. There is a specific kind of magic that happens when you cross ...

It's not every successful musical act that manages to achieve the status of pop culture phenomenon, but ABBA definitely deserves that distinction. The Swedish supergroup's tunes have been so popular ...

It’s weird out there—you’re aging, the world is changing, and the economic landscape is shifting beneath your feet. The things you once cared about suddenly seem so stupid. The things you now care ...

Dear Annie: I am writing about a friendship that has weighed on my heart for quite some time. I have known this woman for more than 20 years, and in many ways, she has been a loyal and lively part of ...

Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Submit questions here. New from Slate’s advice family: Unhinged, a monthly dating column. Part advice, part investigation. Read the first edition now. I am a 30 ...

The dog was asleep in the corner, and I was seated at the kitchen table, drinking a cup of weak tea. My 21-year-old son sat cross-legged on the floor, messing with his guitar, telling me a funny story ...

After COVID-19 broke out, Lu moved back to his hometown in Kouhu Township, where he began developing the feature-length project. The film weaves together adolescent friendship with the social impact ...

The ABBAtars are coming to New York City. Crain’s reported this week that Gary Barnett and his ever-busy Extell Development filed paperwork to demolish half a block on 11th Avenue and West 45th in ...

In a March 2026 post on Reddit’s r/FriendshipAdvice, a woman described a pattern that felt painfully familiar to hundreds of commenters: her friend only texts when she needs to vent about a terrible ...

No matter how much everyone in a friend group wants to hang out, turning ideas into real plans can become a real challenge. Suggestions get tossed around, availability is loosely discussed, yet ...

Pulp have always had a little ABBA in them — songs like “I Spy” and “Acrylic Afternoons” are indebted to the sweep, pulse and melancholy of the Swedish pop sensations’ most nuanced creations. So it’s ...