From New York, “I’m having a friendship affair”: A look at the intensely obsessive, deeply meaningful, occasionally undermining, marriage-threatening, slightly pathological platonic intimacy that can happen between women. Anna Wiener on what women actually say to each other: In a culture that often underrates female friendships, About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter, a new book of conversations between two friends, is invaluable. Rachel Vorona Cote on the art of loving and losing female friends: Friendship is not a pale imitation of sexual romance — it is a romance unto itself. Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the female friendship myth: Lacking a gang of female friends is a greater stigma than being single. Emily V. Gordon on why women compete with each other.
