Modern Love: A Valley of Misery Between Peaks of Joy
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Hopeful thoughts, for those of us wriggling in the muck of love.
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This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
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By Lisa Anderson  NEW YORK - In a world so riven by religious, political and economic differences, it is striking how much we all have in common when it comes to the fabulous creatures that inhabit our dreams and our nightmares.
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The Internet has opened the floodgates of self-expression. What happens next?
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Nutrition, obsession, global business:  an exploration of our second most basic desire.
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âA Modern Personâs Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Upâ offered a quirky survey that dealt with the awkwardness, pain, lust and perversity of interpersonal affairs.
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Cormac McCarthyÂs new book would be pure misery if not for its stunning, savage beauty.
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At last, a love story for adults. In 'Closer,' Mike Nichols explores the thrilling and damaging effects of passion
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Laughter - A Powerful Tool Of Love by Fran Hafey
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Not feeling well? Having a back pain, headache and mental stress? Well then I guess buddy that its time for you to get married! Isnât that the sweetest pill to end your suffering?
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By Evgeny Morozov  Peeping into the life of a frustrated 16-year-old could not possibly be a gratifying experience. This is a period of life normally to be recycled, forgotten and repressed.
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Comment is free: John Harris:  Our popular culture is increasingly defined by an unhealthy refusal to let go of the past
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A love that leads to murder, obsession and the dark side of our existence.
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There's a ray of sunshine in all that gloom and doom.
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"My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, From Chekhov to Munro" (HarperCollins Publishers, 587 pages, $24.95), edited by Jeffrey Eugenides: In the introduction to this remarkable collection, Jeffrey Eugenides warns readers that good love stories aren't fluffy, happy-go-lucky affairs. Instead, they "depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart."
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Life & style: Stephen Moss: A vast study has concluded that happiness is U-shaped: it peaks when we are 20 and 70, but slumps in the middle
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This innovative chronicle of a truly modern romance conveys, in a painful, darkly humorous way, a variety of ultra-identifiable truths.