AMERICAN ROMANTIC. By Ward Just. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 265 pages. $26. In his latest novel, "American Romantic," Ward Just has drawn his protagonist so well and so intimately that we are ...

Combining humour and great emotion, American romances remind us that love is the most beautiful of feelings. Here are 10 ...

Miles Davis, Romantic Hero ... Jazzmen had used the Tin Pan Alley love song as a common form of American expression, and the most inspired of them bent the melodies until special sounds came out.

Writer Eloisa James gathers the best of 2012's romance subgenres. Expect lots of heat, in the most unexpected places and with some unlikely people: From the military to the paranormal, and from ...