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 ...

Perhaps, sometime in the future, Andrew O’Hagan will write a memoir or – more seriously – an autobiography. He has always been a presence in his own non-fiction books, from The Missing, through his ...

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, ...

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 ...

In his memoir/manifesto, the author suggests the close relationships we make with peers shape our lives By Michael Kalisch As a boy growing up in working-class suburban North Ayrshire, Andrew O’Hagan ...

English utilitarians were the most progressive of any of the modern reforming groups. They were also “repulsive,” Helen Andrews argues, “in manners, in conduct, in personality.” In Comment, Yuval ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When Lilly Dancyger started working on her first memoir, Negative Space, nearly 15 years ago, she’d set ...

Who means more to you -- your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays, Lilly Dancyger explores the powerful role that female friendships played in her chaotic ...

Who means more to you — your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays, Lilly Dancyger explores the powerful role that female friendships played in her chaotic ...