In this video I talk about why I and many other Chinese girls are obsessed with danmei, or gay romance novels. I compare the ...

Look on any “As Seen on BookTok” table at your local bookstore, and you’re likely to find them: Romance books that seem demure with cursive fonts and illustrated couples on the cover but with pretty ...

Bookstores once shunted romance novels to a shelf in the back. But with romance writers dominating the best-seller lists, a network of dedicated bookstores has sprung up around the country. Romance ...

Check the furthermost part of the bookstore. On the left, all the way to the back, down the stairs, past mythology and social sciences. It’s the shelf on the end, the one filled with paperback spines ...

Jodi McAlister is the Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Jayashree Kamblé serves as the current President of the International Association for the Study ...

As soon as the doors to the author-signing hall opened, Nivea Brookens consulted her self-annotated map and made a beeline for the author she was most excited to meet: Alexis Patton. “I've been ...

One way to get teens to read more might be to add a little romance. Members of a high school romance book club in Portland, Ore., explain why they love love stories. Fewer teens are reading for fun ...

Jodi McAlister is the Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance, and an author of several romantic comedies published by Simon & Schuster Australia. Jayashree ...