Andrew O’Hagan’s ode to friendship
In his memoir/manifesto, the author suggests the close relationships we make with peers shape our lives
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My friendships are my life. AI could never compete
ChatGPT’s sycophantism is nothing like a real friend.
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An ode to female friendships
From Elena Ferrante to Amandaland, the power of brilliant friends is rightly celebrated.
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At “Mini Christmas” with my friends I will measure my life against theirs
Like tides, we go out and come back again. But our annual gathering has become part of the rhythm of…
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His quiet charisma bowled me over, and he became a friend for life
When we were young we orbited P-J the way the planets orbit the sun. And now he has gone.
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Emily St John Mandel’s Q&A: “I’m the person you want next to you in an emergency”
The Station Eleven author on Volodymyr Zelensky, mask-wearing and how to stay calm.
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The uncomfortable secret of adulthood: friendship takes work
Once jobs and serious relationships are thrown into the mix, friendships stop being things that just happen to you.
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An absence of male-female friendships has left a chasm in society
Too many people remain stuck in the sandpit, yelling that girls suck or that boys are disgusting.
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The Eight Mountains is a rare portrait of male friendship
This moving film takes on a truly unusual subject: a durable, unstated, non-sexual relationship between two men.
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Sunak’s best man: can James Forsyth help save the Conservatives?
The former Spectator political editor’s arrival in No 10 has coincided with a steady Tory revival.
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Why women don’t date short men
Liberal young women have a prejudice we can't justify.
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Find your island
As I headed to remote Scotland, I decided I would come back permanently changed.
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Elizabeth Day is not your friend
The podcaster wants to give you therapeutic advice on friendship. Ignore her.
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Over Scotch eggs I am, to my shame, schooled in “The Pardoner’s Tale”
My friend Ben tells me the plot in such a way that I am suddenly inspired to read it, in…
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The death of the social butterfly
Covid and the cost of living crisis have changed friendship. The main cast is still here, but there is no…
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How dating a couple set me free
Falling for two women has forced me to reassess the boundaries between friendship and love.
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The irresistible romance and rituals of dinner parties
I could piece together a record of my life through the tables I’ve convened friends around.
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It’s time to accept it: there’s no easy, painless way to break up with a friend
Sometimes the only thing that is right for us will be wrong for someone we care about, and there’s nothing…
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Yara Rodrigues Fowler: “I wanted to disorient the Anglophone reader”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel “there are more things” on revolutionary politics, Margery Kempe and cannibalising colonisers.
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I thought I was over the naïve Nineties optimism of Friends. The reunion proved me wrong
Friends may appear an apolitical relic, but like many millenials I can’t be objective about a programme that raised me.
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