romance
Finally! In "Immortal Rules," One Girl of Color Survives Dystopia
I’ve never read a single books published by romance giant Harlequin and so I carried Julie Kagawa’s ... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: Love in the Time of Apocalypse
I agree that apocalyptic imagery has figured prominently in the public imagination in 2011 in part as a result of the anxieties of this moment in time. Nowhere has this been more evident than in songs about love, in which said love is either a distraction from or metaphor for the end times. First,... Read more »
B-Sides: A Wild Flag "Romance"
The debut album from WILD FLAG (say it with me in a Bill and Ted “Wyld Stallyns!” shout-y voice) drops this... Read more »
Sealing the Deal: The wet and wild world of selkie romance novels
In 1972, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss published The Flame and the Flower. With this novel, Woodiwiss transformed the romance genre by making explicit what had previously been implied—that is, sex—and created a formula for success that romance authors would follow for decades. The archetypal... Read more »
Iconography: Romancing Women
Romance novels: generally not the sort of thing we might discuss as a vehicle for feminist literary icons. Many are the faces I have pulled at the quality of some of the novels supposedly aimed at me. I think, however, that writing romance novels off entirely is leaving a lot outside in the cold.... Read more »
The OTHER Teen Vampire Romance Movie
Several months ago, I remember hearing a movie reviewer say, "If you seen one teen vampire romance film this year, let it be Let The Right One In." I figured that since the Bitch site has been ... Read more »
Desert Hearts: In a New Crop of Romance Novels, It's Always Midnight at the Oasis
The average romance-novel hero hasn't changed much since the genre's development in the late 19th century—he's dashing, arrogant, commanding, hopefully rich, possibly even a prince. But is he an Arab? More and more commonly, the answer is yes.
It seems that an Arab man can now get on the cover of a... Read more »
Outside Neverland: Female Writers Reinvent Peter Pan
When the curtain rose at the London premiere of the play Peter Pan in 1904, it unveiled a drama of flying children, fairies, and pirates that would soon become a classic—and inspire countless spin-offs, adaptations, and reinterpretations. On the cinematic side, these began with the 1924 silent-film... Read more »
Fan/tastic Voyage: A Journey Into the Wide, Wild World of Slash Fan Fiction
A journey into the origins of slash fanfiction.
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