 What a year this month has been! Whew. It’s understandable if you’re feeling anxious right now. We’re here to help in what small ways we can. As Shannon Keating writes, in the midst of this historic pandemic, “Maybe more of us can finally recognize our only real worth in this world is what we can offer to others.”
—Tomi
Personal Essays  Paige Vickers for BuzzFeed News The Guy I Was Dating Asked To Be My Boyfriend. Three Days Later, He Broke Up With Me After a devastating breakup, I tried to figure out why dating these days feels so isolating.
I Don’t Know How To Be A Person Right Now Pandemics have historically pushed humanity to undergo great moral and spiritual reckonings. This one could be ours.
I've Had A Disability. The Coronavirus Response Is Proof We Need Accessibility For All. Seeing companies make drastic changes to accommodate working remotely during the coronavirus outbreak is great — but it’s also frustrating for those of us who could have used those accommodations much sooner. Working In Science Was A Brutal Education. That’s Why I Left. Science was a place I ultimately left, not so much because I wanted to, but because I had to.
"Bad" English Is Part Of My Korean American Heritage Once a source of shame, but I now say it proudly: bad English is my heritage.
Chet Hanks Is The Voice Of Reason We Desperately Need Yes, I’m talking about Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson’s large adult son.
Features  Ben Kothe, Elsie Ogelle / BuzzFeed News Millennial Women Made LuLaRoe Billions. Then They Paid The Price. Lawsuits, mountains of unsold leggings, and families drowning in debt: the tumultuous story behind a multilevel marketing brand that promised millennial women a pathway to financial freedom.
How Millennials Are Talking To Their Boomer Relatives About The Coronavirus The big issue? So many of them don’t want to consider themselves “old” or “vulnerable.”
Newsletter exclusive: an astrology column from executive editor Karolina Waclawiak  I was just joking to a friend, how am I supposed to write anything of use in this current moment? Should my column be titled “We’re all fucked and your crystals won’t save you?” While it’s easy to fall into despair and let panic take over, especially in the middle of a pandemic, there are things you can do to feel less useless, to talk to your loved ones who might be at high risk, and even to laugh a little in the face of so much global uncertainty and unrest.
Books  These Are The Best New Books To Read This Spring From a new book by the author of Station Eleven to a self-help guide by Desus and Mero.
I Spoke Out Against American Dirt. Then Oprah Asked Me To Talk About It. After I wrote a piece criticizing American Dirt, Oprah invited me to appear on Oprah's Book Club for a candid conversation with her and author Jeanine Cummins.
44 Books To Read Over Spring Break If Your Travel Plans Are Canceled We asked our favorite indie booksellers about the books they're loving these days.
How My Dark Vanessa Became One Of The Biggest Books Of The Year Kate Elizabeth Russell on her new novel: “It had to be fiction. It had to be artifice. Because otherwise — how could I stand it?"
15 Brand-New Young Adult Novels That Are Just So, So Good Stay in and curl up with a good book!
Cultural Criticism 
How The Bachelor Played Itself The reality television staple is almost two decades old, and tinkering with its formula is yielding diminishing returns.
Oprah's No Good, Very Bad Few Months After decades of raising questions about our national baggage, Oprah has recently become the center of controversy herself.
Fat Women Onscreen Deserve Better Than Crappy Love Interests The few stories we see about fat women are still so often limited to their love lives — which are still so often depressingly mediocre.
High Fidelity Replaces A White Man With A Black Woman And It Actually Works The new Hulu series starring Zoë Kravitz is a thoughtful twist on the original book and movie.
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