Canada is honoring a prolific commercial illustrator responsible for the covers of more than 500 Harlequin romance novels—specifically, with a postage stamp.

Of all the longstanding, beloved subgenres of romance novel, among my personal favorites and also perhaps the most specific is the Regency, set around the same time as Jane Austen. Like Austen, the setting has been occupied by everyone from feminists to conservative evangelicals. Author Cat Sebastian uses the setting…

The #MeToo movement has sparked a reckoning about power, sex, and consent that has already reached deep into the entertainment industry, inspiring conversations about how to build better a popular culture. Perhaps the most frustrating attitude that this has flushed out of the underbrush is that consent can’t be sexy,…

I’ve been a romance reader for pushing two decades, hooked by their unapologetic commitment to women as main characters and endless interest in the fine-grained specifics of human emotion. But the last year has only deepened my appreciation for the genre, which has provided a refuge from political turbulence, even as…

And now, the story of Amethyst Realm, a woman living in England who claims she has had over “20 sexual encounters” with ghosts, all of which have left her so thoroughly satisfied that she claims she will “never go back to men.”

New stats on diversity in romance publishing make it clear that, while there are many voices working to make the genre a more inclusive place, there’s still a ways to go.

The first thing you need to understand about critiquing the romance genre is that its writers and readers don’t need you, have no reason to trust you, and aren’t shy about calling out people they think have gotten it wrong. This is something The New York Times—as well as other outlets considering coverage—should…

Working at a job that requires near-constant attention to the news in 2017, pretty much all that’s keeping my head screwed on straight is routinely sitting down and racing through a romance novel or two. Or five.

Recently, we discussed an important question here at Jezebel.com: What do you eat after sex? Suggestions were thrown out, debate was had, and conclusions were drawn. But in response to the poll question “What food goes well with sex?”, only 9.09 percent of respondents agreed that “an entire roasted chicken” was the…

After his wife died of cancer, a Scottish man named Craig Sullivan took to searching for a new soulmate by casting 2,000 message-filled bottles into various bodies of water around the UK, a desperately romantic act inspired by The Police song “Message in a Bottle.” Unfortunately for Sullivan, his SOS to the world has…

Late last week, Pamela Anderson released yet another impassioned missive extolling the supposed virtues of sun-starved WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, titled “Why My Heart Stands With Julian.”

It’s 1862, and Elle Burns is not what she seems. Ostensibly a slave working in a Confederate senator’s Richmond home, she’s actually a plant gathering intel to aid the Union cause—when she encounters Malcolm McCall, another spy, a dashing Scotsman by way of Kentucky, who simultaneously infuriates and interests her.

The week-long manhunt for David E. Byers came to an end after he was arrested Wednesday following a cross-country chase. The strapping romance novel cover model was wanted in at least four states after he allegedly robbed two Chase Banks and a gas station Connecticut last week. The L.A. Times reports that the alleged…

I love you, The Weeknd.

This is an article about Mother, my wife and lover under Christ. When you are lucky enough to a have a Mother, you must treat her right and with proper respect. Not everyone has a Mother, but I do. I feel lucky to have Mother.

A French businessman is suing Uber after his wife used the app and discovered he was cheating on her. Just in time for Valentine’s Day!

“No—no, please, no!” she whispered, but he laughed softly and kissed her on the ear, and then more gently on the mouth; and all the time his hands moved on her body, his fingers teased and aroused it until she was twisting and turning under him, desiring release, craving it, whimpering against his mouth. — Sweet…

The U.S. government invented all sorts of harebrained schemes to kill Fidel Castro—and I mean really, truly off-the-wall plots. There was the time the CIA tried to poison his milkshake. There was the ploy to discredit him by spraying him down with LSD and watching him go insane during a live radio broadcast. There…

On this day in 1846, Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett married Robert Browning, a move that caused her to be disinherited by her father, wealthy owner of acres of Jamaican sugar plantations, as well as rejected by her brothers. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most wildly popular poets of the 19th century, and her…

While it’s not particularly shocking that notorious philanderer Hugh Grant doesn’t believe in monogamy, now that he’s finally said it out loud it’s hard to not resent that he set so many of us up to believe in love.