In 2018, during the second campaign of the popular web series Critical Role, tiefling Jester Lavorre (played by Laura Bailey) picked up a copy of a smut novel called Tusk Love, starring the daughter ...

Some of the world’s classic love stories—Romeo and Juliet, Lancelot and Guinevere, Scarlett and Rhett, Tarzan and Jane—are built on the idea that what powers love is hurdles: the differences and ...