Posts Tagged ‘romance’

Hetero Ever After? Romance Novels, Race, and the Limits of Social Dreaming

Heteropessimism is everywhere, it seems, from our newsfeeds to our brunch conversations — and now, also, in our book clubs. This gender malaise plays out in contemporary literary fiction with…

The Performativity of Heteropessimism as Feminist Complaint

“Females, however, and effeminate men enjoy having people to wail with them” — Aristotle1 Around the time I turned thirty, I was dating the most magnetic man I’d ever met….