What do you call couples who live together, co-own pets and property, and celebrate the Sabbath with each other’s families, all without ever uttering “I do”? Journalist Hannah Seligson calls them “a little bit married” (ALBM), a term she coined after her own painful breakup and after watching her friends — urban, college-educated 20- and…
Abby Sher lost an aunt and her father before she was bat mitzvah age, and became obsessed with preventing others? deaths. She began picking up sharp objects in the street to prevent cars from running over them. And she found solace in repetition, so she prayed and prayed, and prayed and prayed and prayed. In…
In his new novel, “More Than It Hurts You,” Darin Strauss asks how well can you know the person you wake up next to? Allison Yarrow sat down with the author Darin Strauss to talk about his new novel, about a Long Island mother accused of harming her infant. Strauss unpacks his protagonists, a “Jewish…
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