Throughout history, love has been able to move empires, inspire immortal works, and sometimes lead people to gestures that are as touching as they are foolish. Beyond romantic idealizations, these ...

Love isn't just fodder for poets. For as long as people have been falling for each other, scientists have worked hard to locate the roots of love somewhere in the body. The ancient Greeks and medieval ...

We keep Black History Month on one shelf and Valentine’s Day on another. One is supposed to be about pain and struggle. The other about flowers and pastel sugary hearts. Public remembrance of the most ...

The early ’80s were not exactly the best time for love and romance in rap. And with good reason. Most of the rappers, in a genre that was just 10 years old, were male and fresh out of puberty (if not ...

Before Plato, and for a long time after, people did of course fall in love, but they did not believe that this love might in some sense save them, as we tend to today. When, in Homer’s Iliad, Helen ...