“In a meditation at once philosophical and enmeshed in the world, Bialek shows us how we love in time, both desirous of and fearful for the future. Her patient and lucid prose urges us to discard neither the desire nor the fear but to bear with them both as an essential part of being human. In Bialek’s hands, love comes to seem the only question.”

Emily Ogden, University of Virginia

“Time places us inescapably within beginnings and endings. Love, once it begins, wants not to end. Yet somewhere between loving and losing, there is lingering. In a series of artful essays, Bialek invites us to linger with our loves, offering life lessons through the close contemplation of desire. Love in Time restores lyricism to moral inquiry and eloquence to ethics. It demonstrates that we may speak wisely and poetically, even about uncertainty. The results are luminous.”

Louis A. Ruprecht Jr., Georgia State University

“In this profound reflection, Bialek argues that to love means to desire more time with the beloved. Yet, time brings uncertainty, decline, and death. Lovers are thus suspended between the desire for more time and the fear of vulnerability that entails. Bialek offers guidance to sustain future possibilities of desire in the context of those fears. Carefully and imaginatively argued, Bialek’s work is at once illuminating and practical, remaining always close to the lived realities of lovers in time.”

Kathleen Skerrett, University of Richmond