Ryan Kearney in The New Republic: “I’m not here to bemoan the crass commodification of romantic love, the decline of the rom-com, or the prevalence of heteronormativity and Photoshopped beauty in advertising. My gripe is with love itself.”

+ Think your Valentine’s Day love notes can be as poetic as those written by Richard Nixon?

+ Buying chocolates today? Better get them quick. We’re running out of cocoa.

+ Digital tools might make it easier to hook up. But they also make it harder to break up.