May 27, 2014

The Paris Review, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and government-sponsored kool-aid acid tests — American spooks are so cultured.

May 23, 2014

Installing magnets, microchips and sensors in their own bodies — this is how cyberpunk biohackers went from fiction to reality.

May 21, 2014

Don’t worry, they were just as scared as you are.

May 21, 2014

The Great Gatsby, Mrs. Dalloway, This is How You Lose Her — a movement on college campuses hopes to mark such works as possibly traumatic.

May 20, 2014

After being in school for basically your entire life, of course graduation is scary. Thankfully, there’s quote therapy for that.

May 19, 2014

Because receiving Dr. Seuss’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is only encouraging another generation of man-babies.

May 17, 2014

On the 51st anniversary of James Baldwin’s famous TIME cover, we explore the magazine’s relationship with the Great American Novelist archetype.

May 08, 2014

On this day, the 177th anniversary of Soren Kierkegaard meeting his fiancee, we we examine his and four other philosophers’ takes on love.

May 06, 2014

From ecstatic to suicidal, an emotional scale based on your favorite literary characters.

May 05, 2014

Comprised of one-hit wonders and national heroes, these are the authors who occupy hallowed space on bookshelves in Mexico.