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

There are many songs about hearts. Billy Ray Cyrus scored a hit using the kind of babble one uses with an infant in “Achy Breaky Heart.” Also, Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and its epic ...

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

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 ...