Why are we so obsessed with stories about a group of friends in the big city? ‹

June 25, 2025, 1:06pm The “friends in the city” yarn has a long lineage, spanning every time-bound medium I can think of. Its classic structure follows three to five pals out of a fiercely bonded adolescence into floppier, fractured adult life. Between the covers, tonal mileage can vary. But Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, Meg […]