GENTLE READER: Your confidence that you are not required to reciprocate in your apartment, though technically correct, ...

Miss Manners suggests a compromise, but only for your more intimate friends: Ask one or two of them to keep you company while ...

OPINION — Judith Martin is among my favorite American newspaper columnists. She is best known by her nom de plume, Miss ...

Advice from Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin. I am a young woman who was brought up by my parents to bring or send a gift to my host when I have been invited for a meal or a ...

Actress Eileen Fulton ("As The World Turns") is 91. Animator Don Bluth is 87. Etiquette expert Judith Martin ("Miss Manners") is 86. Actress Barbara Bain (TV's "Mission: Impossible") is 93. Actress ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names ...

Do we have to invite them to join us at a restaurant at some point? If so, may we try to “dilute” them by inviting others?

Some medical facilities ban tipping because they pay parking attendants a living wage, and do not want patients with medical ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A pair of neighbors hosted my wife and me for an impromptu dinner, to which we contributed a nice salad.

Dad’s girlfriend showed up to the letter writer’s bowling birthday party and took over. Dear Miss Manners: For my 40th ...