When I call Fredrik Backman from halfway across the world – he in his Stockholm apartment, me in my New York one – he says something I don’t expect. The “Anxious People” author is soft-spoken, even ...

In an era of loneliness, friends are more important than ever. How do we find, and keep, these connections? Credit...Nishant Choksi Supported by By Judith Newman Judith Newman, who writes the Book ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The novelist Henry Miller once observed that “a book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you.” If ...