Air mail

Letters penned during pandemic by writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine as they shelter in place in Colorado's high country, one on either side of the Continental Divide.

Friendship

In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship—a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love. Beginning with Aristotle’s accounts of frien...

In the name of friendship

Updates Marilyn French's classic The Women's Room to explore the realities of contemporary women.

Raising emotionally healthy boys

As society redefines our ideas of masculinity, the lessons we teach our children are lagging behind. It's become commonplace to think of men as "closed off," while women are often expected to show a broader range of emotional expression. Parents need to have a serious conversation about this, for...

The politics of lonely

Friendship is hard because everything is hard. This book examines social structures to demonstrate how people mend an unravelling social fabric.

Two, two, lily-white boys