“Love” Articles

The popular “grumpy old man” narrative trope is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. But should it be?

Ted Lasso and James Garfield take the hard road of gentleness in a world that assumes the soft touch is synonymous with failure.

Horror movies provide a safe space for us to explore disturbing truths about our natures that might otherwise be unbearable to watch.

We must not allow suffering to obstruct us from having the experiences that make life most worth living.

I never knew that American marriages had such a checkered history.

Left to our tendencies toward comfort, we often use each other’s love to insulate us from the harshness of the world: we hide behind false encouragements.

In U2’s Songs of Innocence, the artist can participate in this reality of love, but only if he can first humbly admit the poverty of his own soul.

Shin Megami Tensei V reveals, with unsentimental efficiency, that righteousness stripped of love spares no thought for forgiveness and compassion.

In The Aviator, Vodolazkin redirects our attention away from history as a sequence of ideological movements and towards the individual actions of human beings, each imbued with eternity.

At the very least, even if you learn that much of what you loved was an illusion or enchantment, your pain is the grief of something real.

But the idea that people go through a stage of “friends as family” and then graduate into “real” family is one I find to be a less-good story.

Agatha takes Wanda to therapy, and the show essentially takes its viewers to therapy, as well.

In Palm Springs, the acceptance of repetition is to some extent important, but its importance is also hinged on the leap of faith

Ted Lasso is striking, in this particular time, because it shines a light into our own darkness.

In their newer albums, Jimmy Eat World shows that the good stuff lies just beneath the soil of the stories we tell ourselves.

Spring suggests that to be truly human is to love in a manner that transcends any evolutionary roots.