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Artist Terry Border Imagines Everyday Objects in Romantic and Risqué Scenarios
Artist Terry Border Imagines Everyday Objects in Romantic and Risqué Scenarios

Spooning spoons, boogieing sushi, and what bent wire has to do with the mechanism of love.

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Missed Connections Illustrated: Artist Sophie Blackall’s Touching Visual Odes to Modern Love
Missed Connections Illustrated: Artist Sophie Blackall’s Touching Visual Odes to Modern Love

Reverse-engineering serendipity, or what ice skating collisions have to do with fish market romance.

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Radioactive: Marie Curie’s Radical and Revolutionary Life, in Lyrical Cyanotype Illustrations
Radioactive: Marie Curie’s Radical and Revolutionary Life, in Lyrical Cyanotype Illustrations

What the periodic table has to do with obscure photographic techniques and Italian erotic séances.

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Let’s Dance: A Stop-Motion Homage to Modern Love
Let’s Dance: A Stop-Motion Homage to Modern Love

What the evolution of cinema has to do with sexuality and storytellers’ moral responsibility.

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<em>Women of the World</em>: An Arresting Global Exploration
Women of the World: An Arresting Global Exploration

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My Faraway One: The Passionate Love Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
My Faraway One: The Passionate Love Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz

How to woo like an artist, or what the overuse of the dash has to do with finding the most generous muse.

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A Field Guide to the North American Family: A Meditation on Humanness
A Field Guide to the North American Family: A Meditation on Humanness

A poetic reflection on the human condition, or what fiscal responsibility has to do with freedom.

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Why We Love: Five Revelatory Books on the Psychology of the Heart
Why We Love: Five Revelatory Books on the Psychology of the Heart

What Oscar Wilde has to do with Hippocrates and the neurochemistry of romance.

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You Deserve a Medal: Honors on the Path to True Love
You Deserve a Medal: Honors on the Path to True Love

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This Is Your Brain on Love
This Is Your Brain on Love

Why love is not an emotion and how obsessive thinking begets romantic joy.

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