Friendship

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Emily St John Mandel’s Q&A: “I’m the person you want next to you in an emergency”

The Station Eleven author on Volodymyr Zelensky, mask-wearing and how to stay calm.

The uncomfortable secret of adulthood: friendship takes work

Once jobs and serious relationships are thrown into the mix, friendships stop being things that just happen to you.

An absence of male-female friendships has left a chasm in society

Too many people remain stuck in the sandpit, yelling that girls suck or that boys are disgusting.

The Eight Mountains is a rare portrait of male friendship

This moving film takes on a truly unusual subject: a durable, unstated, non-sexual relationship between two men.

Sunak’s best man: can James Forsyth help save the Conservatives?

The former Spectator political editor’s arrival in No 10 has coincided with a steady Tory revival.

Why women don’t date short men

Liberal young women have a prejudice we can't justify.

Find your island

As I headed to remote Scotland, I decided I would come back permanently changed.