Considering February is the month of love, what better time could there be to write a love letter or poem to a beloved? To be loved and nurtured is a universal need. Being loved creates feelings of ...

Valentine’s Day is the second busiest day of the year for greeting card companies, but the aisles of pre-printed cliches can ...

“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this ...

Love has always found its purest expression in poetry. Through verses, we capture emotions that sometimes words alone cannot describe—the heartbeat of affection, the sweetness of intimacy, and the ...

“There’s a reason people have exchanged love notes and sent love letters from time immemorial,” says Stephanie Manes, LCSW, JD, a couple’s therapist and psychotherapist who teaches at Columbia ...

In a culture where so many texts feel rushed or uninspired, sending something with weight something that Vladimir Nabokov might have written, is more than romantic. It’s intentional, the most powerful ...

If hope were an object, it would be poet Alex Dimitrov's new book Love and Other Poems. In its entirety, the book itself is one long love poem — to New York City, to the moon, to the many "scenes from ...

As Valentine’s Day 2026 is just around the corner, Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna’s story reminds us that love need not ...