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📚 Once a season, we host The New Urban Order Book Club. Past selections have included Stuck by Yoni Appelbaum and Shade by Sam Bloch, and the book club met…

“When I get into conversations about communal living — especially in this era, when the number of Americans living alone has risen to almost 30% — people often say what I spent years feeling: They wan...

“n this very tumultuous present cultural moment, there is the thought that the more we depend on each other, the more we have control over that turmoil. We don’t have control over who makes…

“When I get into conversations about communal living — especially in this era, when the number of Americans living alone has risen to almost 30% — people often say what I spent years feeling: They…

Two months after my graduation, filled with a very American shame, I sat down in front of my parents and sheepishly asked if I could keep living with my mother indefinitely.

"We’re not all best friends here, but inherent in the cohousing model is an overall desire to seek the health of the group."

Join editor Samantha Paige Rosen and contributors to Living, Together, a new anthology on communal living that invites us to imagine what new opportunities for connection exist when we push throu...

Join us for a celebration of this new anthology, with a discussion featuring Alex Alberto, Sarah Thankam Mathews, and Mia Arias Tsang!

From July to December 2024, Adam Vitcavage and I sent 68 emails back and forth. We were collaborating on a project that was a big deal for both of us: my first book, the anthology Living, Together:…

From July to December 2024, Adam Vitcavage and I sent 68 emails back and forth. We were collaborating on a project that was a big deal for both of us: my first book, the anthology Living, Together:…

The key to a good life isn’t necessarily two adults and a couple of kids separated from the rest of the world by four walls—a model that is less accessible than ever, it’s not what many of us need.

Essays and interviews on the many possibilities for communal living.

Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection

Celebrate Pride with new and debut titles from Douglas Stuart, ‘Pemi Aguda, Deb Olin Unferth, and more

Samantha Paige Rosen’s anthology,Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection (Beacon Press), presents communal living as a practical remedy for affordability issues, familial…

Imagine not being able to feed your kid because of a mistake on a piece of paperwork.

Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection

21 writers and organizers on chosen family, hacking adulthood, and other lessons communal living can teach us about the future of housing in America Featuring Kristen Arnett, Rhaina Cohen, Kim Stanley...

The Whidbey author’s process prioritizes play, even as she crafts deep, difficult stories.