Teenagers

The author discusses her story “Ambrose.”

In the nineteen-eighties, Andrea Modica took photos of the students at her Catholic alma mater. “I recognized something there that I had to deal with about my time in high school—something both horrible and wonderful,” she said.

New York City teens, trapped in the concrete jungle, head out on the Housatonic with two pros, Jessie Stone and Eric Jackson, for some of their first river rides.

The Heartbeat Act is forcing families to journey to oversubscribed clinics in other states—offering a preview of life in post-Roe America.

For years, nonconsensual videos flourished on the Internet. How have adult sites been reined in?

You can’t be an alienated semi-adult forever.

The seventeen-year-old pop singer, who began making music as a COVID diversion, chats in his bedroom about his inspiration (girls), his current grade in math (54), and life as a sudden star.

The forty-one-year-old actress on “Yellowjackets,” child stardom, and what happened in between.

The documentary “The Voice Break Choir” features a Swedish ensemble that lets teen-age boys keep singing as their voices—and lives—change.

Tarell Alvin McCraney created the OWN series, and, of his explorations of Black adolescence, this one is the strongest, second only to “Moonlight.”

It was a form of psychological conditioning, a test I gave myself. I watched to see what would happen to me.

In Mieko Kawakami’s “Heaven,” everyday dilemmas provide a forum for examining fundamental questions of power and morality.

When the pandemic caused New York’s teen-age poetry slam to move from the Apollo Theatre to the Puma store in midtown, twenty aspiring Amanda Gormans recited anaphoras and accentual slant rhymes to mannequins.

The nineteen-year-old behind HBO Max’s “Generation,” something of a “Girls” for Gen Z, helps her fathers and co-creators avoid punctuating texts with periods and using boring-ass millennial tropes like the phrase “boring-ass.”

A year ago, fifteen-year-old Camilo was living in a shelter without Wi-Fi. He catches us up on his year in quarantine, his rescued pet pigeons, and his search for home and friends.

Vanessa Springora was fourteen when the distinguished writer Gabriel Matzneff took her as his mistress. Decades later, she has published “Consent,” a memoir about his “triple predation—sexual, literary, and psychic.”

Coming of age on the streets of San Francisco.

Many teen-agers working in grocery stores and restaurants are grappling with the pressure to help support their families, protect vulnerable loved ones, and plan for their own futures.

“Why was Bree the bad apple? The one needing to be banished? How could a girl of fourteen be the one held responsible?”