The great George Orwell defined a liberal as the sort of person who is willing to believe that vegetables taste better if grown according to international law. Back in the 1930s that was seen as ...

As incredible as it is to hear, the set of the wholesome and family-imaged Little House on the Prairie was labeled by one of its cast members as little more than a tawdry novel. Between the family ...

Fess up or don’t, a lot of us are reading romance novels — otherwise known as “bodice rippers.” The numbers speak for themselves, accounting for 48 percent of all popular paperback fiction published, ...

The cowboy aesthetic is still having a moment. And it’s not just fashion. Though the classic bodice rippers have been around for years – see Lorraine Heath, Linda Lael Miller or Beverly Jenkins – ...

Katherine Morgan always reads romance novels on a plane because if anything goes wrong, she knows how it’s going to end—the couple always end up together. But within the comforting confines of the ...

Secret romantics are sending sales of passionate Mills and Boon-style novels soaring as they rush to download the bodice-rippers for their electronic books. Commuters too shy to read the slushy tales, ...

THE SUCCESS of HBO's "Sex and the City" and Penguin's "Bridget Jones's Diary" has convinced American publishers that there is a new market for romance novels that are edgy, sexy, hip and brimming with ...

As startup ideas go, a brick-and-mortar bookstore selling only romance novels doesn’t sound particularly promising. Amazon.com Inc., after all, dominates retail book sales, romance fans tend to prefer ...