In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

Fearne Cotton is a firm believer in the power of a good book. An avid reader and writer, the broadcaster and Happy Place podcast host has published several bestselling works, including Happy, Calm and ...

Saint Valentine’s Day is a challenge, because the symbols are so clear, but we are not. We can love someone and be afraid to show it.

The spirit of Valentine’s Day, like February itself, is best kept short and sweet. On the occasion of a notoriously ...

Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.

It’s Valentine’s Day! To mark the occasion, Big Books and Bold Ideas is dipping into the archives to focus on love — and not ...

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

I always advocate in favour of more sci-fi plays, and over the past decade there have been a gratifying number of them. But ...

There’s now a thriving industry based on expediting heartbreak. The lovelorn can check into a Heartbreak Hotel on London’s Broadway Market; do Yoga with Adriene classes to help them “tend to” their ...

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Every time Fuentes enters a room she looks for the exits. Then, she identifies all the places where a shooter could barge in.