This Week in Books: I Want to Know What Love Is
A new book argues that love has been “stolen away from the poets.”
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Enormous developments in neuroscience over the past two decades have allowed researchers to peer into the human mind as never before. But it’s not always comfortable to learn about the mechanistic workings of our emotions. Certain feelings that were once endowed with as much mythology and fascination as the ancients granted the waxing) and defensiveness from those who don’t want this most human and effervescent of sentiments pinned like a butterfly to a board.
