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Facebook’s Notifications Are Out of Control. Here’s How to Tame Them.

Facebook already has you hooked, but now it wants to keep you engaged with dozens of notifications each day. Here’s how to get a little peace and quiet.

By Eric Ravenscraft

Wow, Tevas Got Cute

A sandal designed for the great outdoors has joined the ranks of fashionable footwear.

By Eliza Brooke

Why Shailene Woodley Is Taking Ice Baths in Her Hotel Room

The actress, who returns next week in “Big Little Lies,” is into natural products but likes her cake, too.

By Bee Shapiro

No, Night Owls Aren’t Doomed to Die Early

Despite alarmist headlines and a study that suggested morning people live longer, the truth is more complicated.

By Bryan Clark

My Miscarriage Cured My Fear of Childbirth

It was a heartbreaking yet galvanizing preview of what the human body can endure — physically, emotionally and spiritually.

By Kristin Smith Sauchak

A Perfect Recipe That Took Time to Brew

Patricia Park piqued Brett Taylor’s interest with a Match.com profile that cited a love of West Coast India pale ales.

By Vincent M. Mallozzi

Living With Lyme Disease, Stronger With Love

Brian Nicholson thought Brooke Geahan was the most beautiful woman he had ever met. He also knew that she was very ill.

By Louise Rafkin

She Said Yes. Fourteen Times.

Tanya Pushkine and Paul Luykx had different approaches to dating. She was scattershot; he was methodical — and excessive.

By Alix Strauss

A Family Finally Comes Together Under One Roof

Laura Hamm was reluctant to date Gabriel Friedman because they lived miles apart and she was raising a foster son. But then he came up with a plan.

By Vincent M. Mallozzi

Scenes From a Chechen Wedding

The bride had a ceremony. The groom had a ceremony. But, as tradition holds, they were not together during the wedding, and neither celebrated with their 700 guests.

By Andrew E. Kramer

My Husband Wore Really Tight Shorts to the Eclipse Party

And for me, it was a revelation.

By Kerry Egan

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Hey’ Is Not ‘Heyy’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.

I Can’t Hate My Body if I Love Hers

Sometimes it takes seeing yourself in someone else to appreciate your own health and beauty.

By Karina Manta

Tiny Love Stories: ‘How to Meet Cute’

Modern Love in miniature, college contest edition, featuring the best student love stories of no more than 100 words.

For Me, He Was Willing to Face His Worst Fear

A college student on medical leave for compulsive behavior finds comfort in a kindred spirit.

By Meaghan Mahoney

This Week’s Wedding Announcements

All of the weddings right here on one handy page for you.

Jessie Tang, Jesse Chorng

Although they were two years apart at the same high school in California, they finally met through a mutual friend in Brooklyn.

Paruul Batra, Steven Maheshwary

The couple met through Coffee Meets Bagel, a dating app.

Amy Edelstein, Michael Gross

The couple met in 2016 through the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel.

Alexandra Peacock, Katrina Fahey

The couple met in law school at the University of Michigan.

Our Infertility Is No One’s ‘Fault’ — and None of Your Business

A reader’s nosy friends want to know whether “bad eggs” or “bad sperm” are to blame.

By Philip Galanes

To Stay or to Flee: A Syrian Mother’s Impossible Choice

Suhair had to decide whether leaving Syria was worth risking her children’s lives. Now she is coming to terms with the opportunities and costs of her decision.

By Alia Malek

Why Not Let Children Choose Their Own Names?

They’re going to anyway online, you know.

By Danielle Braff

We Planned a Life Together, but Then He Died. It Took Mother’s Day to Help Me Move Forward.

After my husband, J Wesley, was killed in a Navy training accident, I lost my sense of purpose. But I realized I had to transform my grief into something meaningful for our two sons.

By Nicole Van Dorn

Raising Kids Is Hard. Our New Site Will Make It Easier.

NYT Parenting, a Times site, aims to bring clear, expert advice — and a sense of community — all together in one place.

By Margaret Kramer

Traditional Dresses as Resistance

Rarámuri women in Chihuahua, Mexico, have made an indigenous style of dress a means of fighting assimilation.

By Malin Fezehai, Eve Lyons and Victoria Blanco

A Mother’s Clock

Time follows no standard when you become a parent.

By Lydia Kiesling, Daniel Arnold and Eve Lyons

Becoming a Woman Before Their Eyes

The American bat mitzvah has never been more widely broadcast than in 2019.

By Jaclyn Peiser, Eve Lyons and Marisa Chafetz

What Would Texas Be Without Buc-ee’s?

A convenience store chain is the through-line of America’s second-most sprawling state.

By Eve Lyons, Eli Durst and Charley Locke

Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets

Ranchers and seekers of the “mythic West” travel each year to a small Nevada city to practice a tradition born of labor and regional identity.

By Aubrey Trinnaman, Jared Stanley and Eve Lyons

We Made Gray Hair Even Prettier With Pastels

Mermaid hair is not just for millennials. Here’s proof.

By Crystal Martin

Everyone Is Crazy for Glass Skin. Here’s How to Get the Look.

The latest beauty trend has arrived from Korea and is taking over social media.

By Bee Shapiro

Are You Ready for Drive-Thru Botox?

A new wave of beauty bars aims to make injectables as easy as a Drybar blowout.

By Courtney Rubin

Is That Chic Toothpaste Worth the Price?

Brushing and flossing get a dose of glam.

By Bee Shapiro

What’s Behind the Rise of G-Beauty

German skin-care brands are changing the way we view clean beauty.

By Bee Shapiro

After Partying in Montauk All Summer, He Wrote a Memoir About It

“Out East,” a debut book by John Glynn, chronicles a Montauk summer share and coming to terms with being gay.

By Todd Plummer

Sage Adams, a Creative Force Behind SZA

The Brooklyn-raised artist shot the cover and promotional videos for the singer’s 2017 album, “Ctrl.”

By Kate Dwyer

Patti Harrison Bucks Transgender Stereotypes, One Joke at a Time

Her appearance on “The Tonight Show,” skewering President Trump’s transgender military ban, led to a role on “Shrill” and writing duties on “Big Mouth.”

By Alex Hawgood

Zsela Sings Moody Ballads for the Fashion and Art Set

The 24-year-old singer and songwriter recently released her first single, “Noise.”

By Dalya Benor

Gashi, a Son of Kosovo Refugees, Is the ‘Trap Phil Collins’

A few years ago, the rising rapper was a janitor. Now he has millions of streams on SoundCloud and a deal with RCA Records.

By Alex Hawgood

Drinking While Pregnant: An Inconvenient Truth

Recommending that pregnant women not drink alcohol has been called old-fashioned and even patriarchal. So, as a feminist, my opinion may come as a surprise.

By Jen Gunter

Your Vagina Is Terrific (and Everyone Else’s Opinions Still Are Not)

One year ago I wrote about my vagina and men’s opinions of it. Things have not improved.

By Jen Gunter

Food, My Frenemy

My struggle with a binge eating disorder began at age 12. What followed were years of shame, lies, weight fluctuations and, at one particularly desperate moment, maternity clothes.

By Jen Gunter

Why I Wanted to Learn to Perform Abortions

With the future of contraception in question, looking back to recent history is instructive.

By Jen Gunter

Thank You for Not Eating Your Placenta

As an obstetrician and gynecologist, it’s hard to shock me. Or at least it used to be.

By Jen Gunter

Michelle Obama, Tommy Hilfiger and Kris Jenner on the Charity Circuit

Galas were held for Sesame Workshop, the Fresh Air Fund and SeriousFun Children Network.

By Denny Lee

Spike Lee’s Latest Joint

“She’s Gotta Have It” celebrates its second Netflix season in Brooklyn. LGBT Network Kicks off a Hamptons summer.

Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and Jeff Bezos Celebrate Lady Liberty

Also, American Ballet Theater and the Brotherhood/Sister Sol held spring galas.

By Denny Lee

Rupert Murdoch Is a ‘Big Feminist,’ Says His Wife, Jerry Hall

Social influencers rally for the Equal Rights Amendment. And Ava DuVernay’s series about the Central Park jogger case is celebrated at the Apollo Theater.

By Ben Widdicombe

Paris Hilton, Jerry Hall, Gayle King and Ava DuVernay Party for Social Justice

Social influencers rally for the Equal Rights Amendment. And a series about the Central Park jogger is celebrated at the Apollo Theater.