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Photo courtesy of Victoria Orozco  via the Unsplash license As we turn our calendars to February, I’m sure many of us have in mind the much-loved (pun intended) Valentine's Day. If you’re reading this article, I’m assuming that you are a like-minded soul who is also going to be single on the 14th, with no lover in sight. Don’t worry, I’m right there with you. As a former Valentine's Day hater, every time February would creep up on me, I used to think: great – for the next th

Perhaps this is the film's quiet message. Love leaves traces, and these traces are what make us human.

Somewhere along the way, self-awareness became a form of critical self-surveillance. 

Dans la Cuisine des Nguyen, or In the Nguyen Kitchen, is French director Stéphane Ly-Cuong’s incredible first film which discusses themes of identity, rootlessness and belonging.

The revival of the column How To Get A Girl In 10 Months explores the healing process of a breakup over the course of a year and the regrets and lessons that come with it, with the newfound initiative to find love on a year abroad!

Gorgeous and raw, The Use of Photography , by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux, and the once obscure photographer Marc Marie, chronicles their shared, “unknown laws” of lovemaking through a combination of photography and short prose accompaniments. While the memoir’s premise of two lovers told around fourteen, black-and-white, post-coital pictures, really carries the potential for a contrived, noir atmosphere, these still lives are anything but ornamental. Not only are these p

Tom Stoppard's encrypted word games sing of an ingenious thesis on love and its different forms.

How often can a moment of boredom turn into a lasting relationship? Or rather, how often have you opened a dating app in a moment of...

This is an evocative play about the past, present, and future; one word for Collins and Morte’s performances: brilliant.

I would be lying if I said that I haven’t fantasised about finding my one true love whilst on my year abroad, and I would be an even...