My Battle With Anorexia

by Emma Woolf May 7, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Emma Woolf—Virginia Woolf’s great-niece—pens a memoir about battling a decade-long eating disorder. MORE

Stories Behind The Oatmeal Comics

by Jean Trinh May 7, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

The Oatmeal creator tells Jean Trinh the stories behind some of his funniest comics, from cats to... MORE

10 Advice Books for Graduates

by Roman Krznaric, John-Paul Flintoff May 7, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

As students enter their next stage in life, where can they find practical insights about the real... MORE

The Original MTV VJs

by Melissa Leon May 7, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

From doing coke with David Lee Roth to how MTV got so shitty, four vets dish to Melissa Leon on... MORE

Baudelaire’s Femme Fatale

by James MacManus May 7, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Why couldn’t the greatest of French poets write a word without his barely literate Creole mistress?... MORE

This Week’s Hot Reads

by Nicholas Mancusi May 6, 2013 4:25 PM EDT

This week, stories of human endurance and persistence, whether in the courtroom or behind enemy... MORE

The Day the Sea Ran Red

by Dan Jones May 6, 2013 4:04 PM EDT

A small English fleet took on a massive French navy during the Hundreds Years War—and changed the... MORE

How to Fix Public Education

by David L. Kirp May 6, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

David Kirp on how Union City, New Jersey, once one of the worst schools districts in the country,... MORE

Our Right to Revenge

by Thane Rosenbaum May 6, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Thane Rosenbaum, author of 'Payback,' on why we're so confused about the difference between revenge... MORE

Gatsby Before He Was Great

by Jimmy So May 6, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

What Fitzgerald’s first version reveals about the great American dreamer. MORE

Can Humans Survive?

by Annalee Newitz May 6, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Five mass extinctions have nearly wiped out life on earth.... MORE

Still a Country Girl

by Edward Platt May 6, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Novelist Edna O’Brien reveals her wild life in her new memoir. By Edward Platt. MORE