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

But there is a great consolation in being loved distinctly. And this love extends to the world around us: You may know the ...

She lets out a sigh and has a good cry, I tell her to release her feelings one at a time,” Cecelia, 30, wrote in a poem that ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

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