If we see friendship as a puzzle rather than a pyramid, we become more attentive to where each piece fits. This attentiveness ...

Judith Newman, who writes the Book Review’s self-help column, is the author of “To Siri With Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son ...

My friend’s church has initiated a novel Lenten practice, which is to write a letter every day in Lent and mail it: 40 ...

The last several years have been marked by many improvements in Hinsdale’s infrastructure, business district and village finances. Three of the current candidates for village trustee were very ...

School board election season is here. The candidates dutifully and in unison mouth the regular bromides that risk upsetting no one: collaboration, stakeholder input, curriculum alignment, rely on the ...

He saw more hyperorganized five-paragraph essays; more essays that were formatted as a letter to someone ... in text messages with your friends, then why would you use it in an essay to college?

I read with profound sadness “The Human Cost of Ending Foreign Aid” (February 23). I had the privilege of serving in two of President Kennedy’s most successful foreign policy programs, both ...

My diagnosis and the support system I surrounded myself with ultimately pushed me to be better − not just as a performer but as a husband, father, son and friend. In case you missed: Jonas ...

You can find a copy of my letter below: Mr. (Noah) Shachtman's essay about horse racing gave short shrift to the sport's upside, including its positive economic impact. Thoroughbred racing in the ...

Actor Mara Wilson remembered her friend and fellow 1990s child star, the late Michelle Trachtenberg, in a moving essay. “Not only was she nice, I realized, but she was remarkably intelligent,” Wilson ...

I’ve always thought Canadians were great neighbors. They are our longtime allies, our biggest trading partner, and our best friends. So it’s hard for me to believe that President Trump has ...

A reader feels spurned by a friend’s “self-righteous” declaration that she would no longer engage with him about politics after he revealed he didn’t plan to vote. By Philip Galanes My ...