You don't have to live in the same town or — or even the same country — as your best friend to maintain a strong friendship. Even so, it can be challenging to live far away from your favorite people.

Author Jonathan Norton, left, wrote Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem, and Dexter Singleton, right, directs the production now on stage at Dallas Theater Center ...

A person’s social network can be surprisingly complex. Yet, we think we only need a romantic partner and a nuclear family. Maybe one good friend. Otherwise, those not legally or biologically fastened ...

Whether we’re exchanging locks of hair or bright plastic beads, humans have been finding ways to honor our friends for millennia. Mariale and Paula Nuñez, sisters from Peru, show off their friendship ...