My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge and arrive anyway.

We cut our stay short due to the terrible odor, primitive accommodations and insufficient space and privately vowed to never return.

These are friends of mine, and I do want to entertain them, but I’m afraid I’ll be limiting them to barbecues in the future.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a single man who inherited, from my parents and grandparents, both a love of entertaining and also a great deal of the trappings needed-- china, crystal, linen, silver-- that ...

My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge (such as an emailed “I wondered if you had received this,” with a second copy of the invitation) — and ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a host seeks advice on handling friends who arrive without RSVPing.

Why is it not considered rude to engage me in conversation against my will, but it IS considered rude to tell people you ...

Miss Manners assures you that you are not being impolite if, after one or two short responses, you find something to do that ...

Suzanne Andrews Correa’s “The Huntress” is another film about cultural hierarchy and subjugation. Taking place in Juarez, Mexico, where rape and femicide are frequent and unpunished, Luz (Adriana Paz) ...

Why do strangers want to make small talk with me while waiting in grocery checkout lines, at bus stops, at the bank, during flights, etc.? STOP!

Miss Manners hopes, however, that you will not otherwise dumb down your charming, seated dinner parties because of a few outlaws. We, the purveyors of fish knives and strawberry forks, are a dying ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to politely avoiding small talk with strangers in ...