intimacy

A songwriter’s songwriter, Bridgers approaches the big topics — love, death, technology — with a candor and intimacy that can convince the listener they’ve stepped directly into her mind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

This deeply tender and generous memoir pulls back from the intimacy of David’s bungalow to take in all humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Reclaim human intimacy: As A.I. makes inroads into all aspects of society, are chatbots damaging our capacity to maintain relationships with real people?

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

Simon says that broken sleep, caused by a partner's snoring, can lead to irritability, arguments, and - if it is decided that sleeping in separate rooms is needed - reduced intimacy.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

She wrote to Obinze about the books she read, careful, sumptuous letters that opened, between them, a new intimacy; she had begun, finally, to grasp the power books had over him.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

At moments, poignant domestic intimacies such as cooking and bathing threaten to break the detente and let in some emotion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

The lines that had once been carved in laws and norms are obsolete in the eyes of an algorithm designed to lure you into the performative intimacies of strangers’ lives.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2025

In a mega two-hour, dual album, released in two parts as "The Tortured Poets Department" and "The Anthology," Swift pens 31 different heartbreaks, triumphs and intimacies — tortured poems if you will.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024

They hold decades inside them, slowly unpeel into intimacies between characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

They said they loved each other, used “darling” and “dearest,” and knew their future was together, but they held back from wilder intimacies.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan