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Reading Jill Ciment’s <em>Consent</em> As a Former Teenage Bride

Reading Jill Ciment’s Consent As a Former Teenage Bride

Rafia Zakaria Considers Context, Choices and Consequences Across Eras and Cultures

By Rafia Zakaria | June 24, 2024

The literary romantic holiday that should replace Valentine's Day.

The literary romantic holiday that should replace Valentine's Day.

By Drew Broussard | April 23, 2024

Tide In, Tide Out: Anne Lamott on Growing Old and Making Peace with Death

Tide In, Tide Out: Anne Lamott on Growing Old and Making Peace with Death

“My father’s death feels like it was twenty years ago but it was more than forty-five.”

By Anne Lamott | April 10, 2024

Romance Finely Aged: On the Unique Dynamic of Older Couples

Romance Finely Aged: On the Unique Dynamic of Older Couples

Carys Davies Considers Fictional Representations of Romance Among the Elderly

By Carys Davies | March 28, 2024

Romance In the White House: What George Washington Wrote To His Wife

Romance In the White House: What George Washington Wrote To His Wife

Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler on Presidential Love Letters Throughout the Centuries

By Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler | February 14, 2024

Happy Endings Redefined: Why There Should Be More Books About Breakups

Happy Endings Redefined: Why There Should Be More Books About Breakups

Hannah Sloane on the Romance Genre, Celebrating Being Single, and How She Wrote Her Debut Novel

By Hannah Sloane | November 10, 2023

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Literature's Porous Borders: Where Fiction Ends and Reality Begins

By Salar Abdoh | November 7, 2023

Love and Looking: On What We (Don't) See Together

By Devorah Baum | November 2, 2023

Hilary Leichter on the Partnership Between Reader and Writer

By Hilary Leichter | October 6, 2023

Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

Tracy Daugherty on the Chronicler of the American West

By Tracy Daugherty | September 18, 2023

The Booker Revisited: On Love's Many Manifestations in <em>A Green Equinox</em>

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Lucy Scholes Sheds Light On Elizabeth Mavor's Overlooked Modern Classic

By Lucy Scholes | September 1, 2023

Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great's Animosity Towards Desire

Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great's Animosity Towards Desire

Ron Rosenbaum Considers the Essential Role of Love in Making Us Human

By Ron Rosenbaum | August 16, 2023

Annihilation, Beauty, and Shakespeare: Is Juliet the Best Dead Girl?

Annihilation, Beauty, and Shakespeare: Is Juliet the Best Dead Girl?

Sophie Duncan on the Morbid Entertainments of Sex and Death

By Sophie Duncan | June 7, 2023

Papers Are Power: How the Undocumented Fight for Love and Security

Papers Are Power: How the Undocumented Fight for Love and Security

Anna Lekas Miller Refutes the Xenophobic Myths Underpinning “Green Card Marriages”

By Anna Lekas Miller | June 7, 2023

Madelaine Lucas on How to Write a Love Story

Madelaine Lucas on How to Write a Love Story

“The middle of the story—like the middle of love—is where complexity and intimacy dwell.”

By Madelaine Lucas | March 24, 2023

Ruminations on Love, Loss, and Art in Manhattan’s Unlikely Oasis of Peace

Ruminations on Love, Loss, and Art in Manhattan’s Unlikely Oasis of Peace

Patrick Bringley Finds Some Calm at The Cloisters

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