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

Men, I guarantee you that regardless if you’ve been married 40 years and never acknowledged Valentine’s Day once in all that ...

It’s almost Valentine’s Day… Actually, it’s almost St. Valentine’s Day, but who is St. Valentine and why is he associated ...

NEW YORK — The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s immersion into a poem written during happier times.

The influence of culture and technology on love is ever-evolving. History tells us that people have always adapted to changes ...

During the Middle Ages, Europeans believed that apples had aphrodisiac qualities and used them in love rituals. If a woman ...

Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the secret police who, along with Bukharin, was condemned to death in the last show trial of old Bolsheviks in 1938, was so fond of Mandelstam’s Stalin poem that he ...

Valentine’s Day, celebrated annually on February 14 in many Western countries, is synonymous with romantic love, expressions ...

India’s erotic heritage, with love songs written in Tamil, Sanskrit and Prakrit, are not part of gender studies or the culture curriculum. Jain poems in Kannada once spoke of queens who secretly ...

Every February 14, across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this ...

In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its ...

"I imagined them falling asleep and waking up next to someone else, calling someone else when they were hurting, and marrying ...