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Rafia Zakaria
| June 24, 2024
The literary romantic holiday that should replace Valentine's Day.
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Drew Broussard
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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.”
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Anne Lamott
| April 10, 2024
Romance Finely Aged: On the Unique Dynamic of Older Couples
Carys Davies Considers Fictional Representations of Romance Among the Elderly
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Carys Davies
| March 28, 2024
Romance In the White House: What George Washington Wrote To His Wife
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Hilary Leichter on the Partnership Between Reader and Writer
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Sophie Duncan
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Papers Are Power: How the Undocumented Fight for Love and Security
Anna Lekas Miller Refutes the Xenophobic Myths Underpinning “Green Card Marriages”
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Anna Lekas Miller
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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.”
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Madelaine Lucas
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Patrick Bringley Finds Some Calm at The Cloisters
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Patrick Bringley
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