Friendship comes in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes a friend is like a favorite pair of old sneakers; the fit is right and so is the comfort. Others may be friends in the making — the relationship is ...

Lane Moore, author of "You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult." (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Lane Moore is many things: a writer, comedian, actor and musician ...

We talk endlessly about romantic love. We chart it, market it, monetize it. We measure our lives by it. But female friendship — the kind that begins in school corridors, in shared bedrooms, in ...

There’s nothing quite like a best friend, whether the two buddies are polar opposites or peas in a pod. Buddy stories are one building block of children’s literature, and there are as many ways to ...

Each month, the SELF Well-Read Book Club highlights a timely, delightful, and crucial book on a subject that helps readers live better lives. So far, we’ve covered everything from the politics of ...

Our thoughts and attitudes are shaped by all sorts of people and institutions, but our thoughts and attitudes can change through exposure to alternative ways of thinking. One of the avenues that allow ...

Few writers have shaped the inner lives of young readers as profoundly as Judy Blume. Since the early 1970s, the beloved author of classic books like Forever and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret ...

“The Tour at School” by Katie Clapham, illustrated by Nadia Shireen. (Ages 3-7. Candlewick Press. $18.99.) If only every school tour were like this one! When it’s your job to show a new person around ...

Works by Jane Godwin, Joshua David Stein and Matthew Diffee find new lenses through which to explore an old subject, in lovely and surprising ways. By Laurel Snyder Laurel Snyder is the author of many ...

I like to think that what I am doing in my blogging and book-writing about single life is myth-busting and consciousness-raising. I’m promoting an unapologetic take on single life. Odd that it is even ...