Since the invention of mix tapes, people have professed their love to their crushes through the magic of song. Unfortunately, the novelty of the mix tape has since worn off and Spotify playlists have ...

We used to confess our secret crushes through mixtapes on cassette, or dumb little notes written on college-ruled notebook paper. (“Do you like me? Check one”.) But those days in firmly in the past.

In my new book, Crush: A Novel, a happily married woman develops a massive crush on a friend and tries to figure out, mostly through ransacking the history of world literature, how to keep both men in ...