romance Archives - The American Scholar

Valentines Past

By Phillip Lopate | 02/17/2017 |

If only I’d had the nerve …

The Accident

By Jean McGarry | 09/06/2016 |

On market day in the village, two lives are about to collide

Crush

By Brian Doyle | 05/13/2016 |

The way she flowed into that bus

14 Novels of Love Gone Wrong

By Our Editors | 02/11/2016 |

Relationships doomed, damned, or otherwise disappointing

The Phaedra Syndrome

By André Aciman | 12/07/2015 |

Desire, denial, and the making of compelling TV

The Mysteries of Attraction

By Edward Hoagland | 09/07/2015 |

Its many splendors do not only include the carnal: animate, inanimate … love it all