The Catcher in the Rye

Whether you’re planning to visit the Big Apple this year or prefer armchair travel through stories, explore the best books about New York City below.

In an official unofficial poll of me by myself sitting alone at my desk, Mean Girls is the most popular teen movie of the last decade(ish). Why? Because it’s about an outsider who becomes an insider (who becomes an outsider who decides she doesn’t care about being a -sider at all). And who, may I […]

So many of the books we read in high school get an undeservedly bad rap. It’s not that they’re boring stories or poorly written, but the fact that they were assigned reading that made them unappealing. (“Ew, homework.”) Maybe you didn’t understand the stories at the time but painstakingly made your way through them—or maybe you just skimmed […]

Parents complicate things. They force you to change clothes, insist you come home before curfew, and demand to meet the people you’re heading out with for the evening. In other words, it’s hard to have adventures, fight crime, start a revolution against a dystopian government, or go on a killing spree when your parents are […]