A person’s social network can be surprisingly complex. Yet, we think we only need a romantic partner and a nuclear family. Maybe one good friend. Otherwise, those not legally or biologically fastened ...

Source: Pixabay/aszak/Public domain. A man is happy if he has merely encountered the shadow of a friend. —Menander Plato and Aristotle both gave an important place to friendship in the good life: ...

My best friend, Olivia, and I met in a fiction-writing class many years ago. We bonded in an instant during the discussion of one poor soul's incomprehensible story involving a woman who'd undergone ...