Love
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Books
‘The Bachelor’ Promises True Love. So Why Does It Rarely Work Out?
Of the 40 combined seasons of “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” only eight couples have stayed together. We spoke to…
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Opinion
Larry Young, Who Studied the Chemistry of Love, Dies at 56
Professor Young’s experiments with prairie voles revealed what poets never could: how the brain processes that fluttering feeling in the…
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News
The Poems That Taught Me How to Love
Lessons from the Chilean poet’s mind-bending verse.
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News
My Girlfriend Said She Loved Me. Should I Say It Back Even if I’m Not Sure?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether it’s OK to profess love if you’re uncertain you feel it.
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Opinion
The Invasive Species Debate Is Not Always Simple
Where starlings are concerned, I thought my heart was a stone. Starlings descend in great flocks on orchards and farms,…
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Opinion
We Thought We Had Spotted an Exotic Bloom. It Was the Vividly Colored Remains of a Soda Bottle.
It is springtime, and I want to turn to thoughts of love. In my case, love of this world, love…
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Books
Review: Looking for Love With Burt Bacharach, and Finding a Prayer
Mark Morris’s “The Look of Love” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is uneven, but you can’t fight its swing.
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Books
‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ Remains Hard to Forget
Michel Gondry’s surreal love story stunned audiences in 2004, and some of its sentiments are all the more relevant in…
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Books
These Oscar Snubs Still Rile Up Readers
You can’t forgive the Academy for passing up “Brokeback Mountain” or omitting Amy Adams in “Arrival,” among other oversights that…
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Books
The Essential James Baldwin
James Baldwin would have turned 100 on Aug. 2 this year. His final works were published almost 40 years ago,…