The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Pitch Perfect isn’t just about the Barden Bellas’ audacious a capella routines. It’s also about the Bellas themselves, a group of misfits who found something to unite them: smartly using lyrics and mashups to put down the haters. As Beca (Anna Kendrick) affectionately tells the group in Pitch Perfect 2, “When I look back on this, I won’t remember […]

For all the learning we do during the school year, summer is the season of greatest growth—simply because it’s so unstructured and unsupervised. Sure, there are the timeworn rituals of sleepaway camp family road trips, but those just give summer breakers a chance to meet people from other walks of life. In short, summer can change your life: You might meet […]

In the dark days of yesteryear, we had to physically wander into bookstores and pick up books at random to find one that suited us, like animals. And we had to do it uphill, in the snow. Nowadays you can simply click your way over to a list that will recommend books perfectly suited to your taste. […]

How many times have you been reading (or rereading. And then rereading again) a book and thought I could totally be best friends with this character!? We’ve all wished we could hang out with our favorites from time to time, but which character would truly be your BFF? We think it depends on the kind […]