Heather Havrilesky

Social media’s effects have made it imperative for actresses to always feel accessible. Woe be unto Anne Hathaway for acting like a star.

The new guys feel so much like the old ones.

It’s not easy to be a person, but Heather Havrilesky of the “Ask Polly” column has some advice on how to follow your dreams, figure out career and family — and dump wishy-washy, noncommittal guys.

You are at the center of a dysfunctional ecosystem.

You have to tune in to your deepest feelings as you explore this possibility.

A new documentary offers a chance to reconsider Rogers’s mission and examine why his message is still so hard for adults to hear.

Just keep working, advises Lisa Hanawalt, who turned her freakiest passions into a thriving TV career.

“My accusers won’t even acknowledge me or check up on me, to see if I’m okay.”

Brett Kavanaugh barely even had to try.

Sometimes there’s nothing you can do but keep your distance.

You can believe that the fight is hopeless and still fight.

Sure, my prairie is a driveway, but the mind must travel.

Until you learn to assert healthy boundaries, you’ll struggle with all of your relationships.

Throw away this complicated puzzle and reconnect with the people around you.

Confident, self-possessed women often make people nervous.

Most marriages live in gray areas, and that’s normal. I want to write — and read — books that acknowledge that marriage is more than happily ever after.

Even great marriages have their ups and downs, so why is anger in a marriage so repugnant to so many people?

A lament and an ode to the 50-something man in my house.

The Stranger Things star on coming to terms with the past, making sense of the present, and what to do when you find yourself in the Hollywood version of the Upside Down.

Oh, to have sycophants of one’s own.