Here’s what an intense desire for a fictional character looks like. Fictophilia, fictosexuality and fictoromance refer to the intense and enduring emotional attachment, love, infatuation or desire ...

I haven't been on a date in over six months. But over that time, I've probably fallen in love at least twenty times. Clinical sexologist and psychosexual therapist Chloe Scotney explains that there ...

At one time or another, any “gifted student”-type who reads at an advanced level will almost inevitably experience the canon girlhood event of becoming infatuated with a fictional character. Perhaps ...

While I was enduring a bout with COVID back in February, I found an old copy of The Great Gatsby on the bookshelf of my basement quarantine refuge and read it again for the first time in many years.

We know characters in fiction as well as we know many, and perhaps most, of the people around us. Yet fictional characters are often sketched remarkably lightly. In the more than 800 pages of ...