Love Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/love/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:20:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Love Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/love/ 32 32 The Metalyrical Moment https://www.publicbooks.org/the-metalyrical-moment/ Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:00:55 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=38618 Three recent poetry collections have cemented the rise of what we might call the “metalyrical”: poetry that interrogates the conditions of its own expression.

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]]> Quit Playing Games with My Heart https://www.publicbooks.org/quit-playing-games-with-my-heart/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=31905 Robert first catches my eye from across the coffee shop. New to the neighborhood, I’m looking for a friendly face. But Robert—glaring back at me from over his mug ...

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]]> Translators and Other Icons https://www.publicbooks.org/translators-and-other-icons/ Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:00:56 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=27869 Writers are sexy figures. Until recently, we tended to imagine them as drunk and glamorous, Hemingway at the bar in Cuba or Frank O’Hara partying with artists ...

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]]> Muses Explain Things to Me https://www.publicbooks.org/muses-explain-things-to-me/ Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:00:55 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=21929 The feminist muse is an artist, too. No silent sitter, she swaps the easel-facing chaise for a work space wholly hers, sloughing off the obligation to inspire ...

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]]> The Ambivalence of Appropriation https://www.publicbooks.org/the-ambivalence-of-appropriation/ Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:00:54 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=19629 One day in the summer of 2001, English professor and cultural critic Eric Lott received a phone call from rock journalist Greil Marcus. Marcus had some news ...

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]]> Queer Your Own Adventure https://www.publicbooks.org/queer-your-own-adventure/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:00:11 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=18322 “BEWARE and WARNING!” So heralds the front page of the Choose Your Own Adventure books, wildly popular in the 1980s and 1990s. “This book is ...

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]]> Love in a Broken World https://www.publicbooks.org/love-in-a-broken-world/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:00:57 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=17059 There are now, it seems, more ways than ever for a woman to reach or ruin her own potential. Mainstream feminism today hinges upon a vision of woman as rational actor capable of logically and authoritatively plotting her own course through life. Of course, it’s not that simple: women run up against intractable barriers, broadly […]

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]]> Wild States of Being https://www.publicbooks.org/wild-states-of-being/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:00:45 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=14052 A lacquered blue cube and a cat named Labes: these nonhuman characters shed unforgiving light on human frailty in the wrenching new novel by Italian writer Domenico Starnone, Ties, scrupulously ...

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]]> The Book That Made Me: Learn How to Love https://www.publicbooks.org/the-book-that-made-me-learn-to-love/ Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:00:53 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=8610 The Book That Made Me is a series about the books that have changed our lives. In this inaugural installment, a National Book Award–winning historian …

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]]> Workplace Romances https://www.publicbooks.org/workplace-romances/ Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/workplace-romances/ Do what you love. Most American 20- or 30-somethings have heard this helpful tidbit of career counseling at one time or another in the course of our lives. Like many adages, this one is dangerous: it places a burden on young people to invest emotionally in what is, for many, a matter of survival. Consequences […]

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