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

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 ...

Need ideas for where to take your sweetheart for a Valentine's date night in North Jersey? Here are some Things to Do, Feb. 13-16.

From picture books to graphic novels, fantasy to family fun ... And some are recent releases that have the timeless quality of classics—the kind that get handed down to siblings and passed around ...

In “Memorial Days,” Geraldine Brooks retreats to an island off Australia hoping to pick up the pieces after the sudden death ...

where Soul Rep is staging the play. “If you go back to the big theater history book we used, there’s a paragraph and a picture. That’s it.” Cotie now includes The African Company Presents ...

If you can “get” the book in some “see what ... She is a far more serious writer, but Old Soul is not a patch on The Incarnations. At an airport – a classic liminal space – two strangers ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

If you read enough, you sometimes come across a book that defies description. That’s a decent enough way to start a review of “Old Soul,” the new novel by Susan Barker. Described in marketing ...

Soulman John Leech plays great Soul classics plus what's new on the Soul scene.

From the Brontë sisters to Kurt Vonnegut to Zora Neale Hurston, these are the best classic books to add to your TBR this year ...