Compared to others, I have a strict interpretation of the meaning of “friendship.” For some people, the question of whether they are friends with someone might be a quick yes, without hesitation, ...

There's an arc toward the end of PEN15's first season in which inseparable besties Maya and Anna get into a passive-aggressive fight that nearly leads to the dissolution of their friendship. The hurt ...

FIRST LOVE: Essays on Friendship. By Lilly Dancyger. Dial Press. 224 pages. $28. Who means more to you — your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays, Lilly ...

In these bruising essays, memoirist Dancyger (Negative Space) contemplates female friendships “predicated on deep love and knowing,” yet frequently marked by tragedy. Probing grief and self-discovery, ...

Listening to "Crowded Table," a song about women coming together to lift each other up by The Highwomen (a supergroup made up of Maren Morris, Amanda Shires, Brandi Carlile, and Natalie Hemby), I ...

Here’s the next installment of our series, “Fast-Told Tales,” short essays (200 words or fewer) about various topics by readers of the Fast Forward newsletter. The April theme was friendship. My twin ...

I’ve always been skeptical about the permanence of relationships — friendships, familial, romantic. November of my freshman year, though, after a tumultuous beginning to college, I found myself ...

“We’re all different, and I think we’ve forgotten that that’s OK.” Those were the words that Ellen DeGeneres used to defend herself after people became outraged by a picture of her sitting next to ...