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The 4.21.24 Issue

Highlights

  2. The Modern Love Issue

    Lessons From a 20-Person Polycule

    How they set boundaries, navigate jealousy, wingman their spouses and foster community.

     Interviews by Daniel Bergner

    COPY TK RESEARCH TK From left to right: C., A., D., K., A., S., and N. photographed in Somerville, MA, in March 2024.
    CreditAnne Vetter for The New York Times
  3. The Modern Love Issue

    Can a Sexless Marriage Be a Happy One?

    Experts and couples are challenging the conventional wisdom that sex is essential to relationships.

     By Amanda Montei

    CreditTonje Thilesen for The New York Times
  4. The Modern Love Issue

    The 16 Messages That Led to Love

    Readers of the Modern Love column share the banter, emojis and wit that made them fall for each other.

     Illustrations by Tara Booth

    CreditIllustration by Tara Booth

  1. Online Dating After 50 Can Be Miserable. But It’s Also Liberating.

    You know so much more about yourself and your desires when you’re older that dating apps — even with all their frustrations — can bring unanticipated pleasure.

     By Maggie Jones

    CreditIllustration by Sophi Miyoko Gullbrants
    The Modern Love Issue

  2. Loving Him Meant Facing My Greatest Fear

    Living with a disability, I shielded myself from dance. Then I met him.

     By Chloé Cooper Jones

    CreditElinor Carucci for The New York Times

  3. My Boyfriend Said He’d Save Our Cat but Not a Stranger if Both Were Drowning

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether there is inherent value in human life more than any other kind of life.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  4. The Rom-Com That’s Responsible for My Marriage

    The 1992 movie “Singles” changed my life.

     By Sam Anderson

    CreditIllustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban
    Screenland

  5. The Poems That Taught Me How to Love

    Lessons from Pablo Neruda’s mind-bending verse.

     By Nicholas Casey

    CreditIllustration by Nick Dahlen
    Letter of Recommendation

  1. Judge John Hodgman on the Strange First Date Choice

    3 years later, a couple is still at odds about his move at the end of the night.

     By John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
    Judge John Hodgman

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