March 22, 2013
Take a break from your work and try to unscramble these iconic book covers. Your reward? The satisfaction of knowing that your brain still works at top speed, even on a Friday afternoon.
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Take a break from your work and try to unscramble these iconic book covers. Your reward? The satisfaction of knowing that your brain still works at top speed, even on a Friday afternoon.
Read MoreThis week's Intrepid Intern column is here to get you through those last few days before Spring Break. Strap on your backpacks, because you're about to visit some of the best fictional schools literature has to offer.
Read MoreThis week's Intrepid Intern column features a Bingo drinking game for your Oscar weekend preparations. Let us know how far you get before you just start taking a shot every time Seth MacFarlane makes a fart joke.
Read MoreThis week's Intrepid Intern column once again features everyone's favorite literary superhero, Ernest Hemingway. As an ode to his love for adventure, see if you can match the Hemingway bodypart to the correct injury.
Read MoreThis week's Intrepid Intern column is here to get you through flu season
with a disease-themed crossword puzzle. Sure, murders and freak
accidents always make for an exciting death, but nothing adds to a
narrative like a good old fashioned illness.
This week's Intrepid Intern column is devoted to the author with three names: Bret Easton Ellis, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, et. al. We pay homage to their space-hogging monikers with the rebus puzzle, the stand-by of every issue of Highlights.
Read MoreThis week the Intrepid Intern is helping you almost get it kind of together with a handy personality quiz. The Girls/Sex and the City comparisons have been done to death, but where are the parallels between Dunham et al. and literature’s other famous female quartet: Louise May Alcott’s Little Women?
Read MoreOnce more, we sent our intern out into the world with only a clipboard
and pen to confront the people of New York City. This week we saw they
can tell the difference between a line of one e.e. cummings and Ke$ha. The two might just have more in common than
you think.
Welcome to a new column in which one of our intrepid interns pounds the pavement, asking a burning literary question on everyone's mind. This week, we asked unsuspecting strangers who rocked a white turtleneck better: fresh-faced heartthrob Justin Bieber or bearded he-man Ernest Hemingway?
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