Archive - Meet Cute Missives

'Falling for Christmas'

A review of Lindsay Lohan's 2022 holiday rom-com

Apr 18, 2023 •

Elinor Lipman is the new EM Forster. Fight me

Her characters are delightful company, and she's not afraid to sucker punch you with painful plot surprise

Apr 11, 2023 •

Melissa Joulwan

Rom-Com Metamorphosis: On Lust, Laughs, and the Ben Affleck Canon

To reclaim that romcom feeling, we may first have to break out of the genre.

Apr 4, 2023 •

Olivia Crandall

March 2023

A New Generation of Romance Writers are Putting Fat Characters on the Page

Here’s Why it Matters

Mar 29, 2023 •

What I Learned When I Listened to Bridget Jones with my Daughter

My TikTok teen is more self-aware, inclusive and critical of socially imposed misogyny than I ever was

Mar 21, 2023 •

Jane Austen and the Romcom

Stories like the classic ‘Pride and Prejudice’ live on in our romcoms because they mix examinations of society and power with plots about love and…

Mar 14, 2023 •

February 2023

This is Meet Cute Missives.

Feb 23, 2023 •

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