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The Oxford college room of yore - despite the romantic connotations - was very likely to be a cold, damp and creaky affair, with moth-eaten armchairs and rudimentary amenities (picture narrow single beds and a sink and mirror in the corner). These days, though, many have been revamped to include ensuite...
This anecdote appears in The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes (Pantheon; 576 pages), which is the most flat-out fascinating book so far this year. You wouldn't get that from its title, which sounds like a tender coming-of-age novel, nor from its subtitle - How the Romantic...
What are the hallmarks of the ideal romantic sound track? (Listen to TIME's sound track above.) You always have to start with the joy. I think in anything, it's the same pattern, whether you're old or young - there's a honeymoon period where everything's amazing and...
Read TIME's report "Falling Out of Love with Romantic Comedies."
Zombies are what we feel like at our worst: slogging through a winter workday, standing in a long line at airport security, waking up with a hangover. Vampires speak to the romantic in us, to our need for human contact, teeth to neck. They embody everything erotic about the predatory...