I admit, I’m a little slow on the cultural uptake. Only just this morning did Spanx complete its frontal assault on my consciousness, thanks to the one-two punch of hearing Robert Pattinson reference ...

NICK HORNBY: The Awkward Age is the title of a Henry James novel. The Innocents, your first book, was also a film version of James’ Turn of the Screw. Is James your favorite writer? And who else has ...

For the past couple of years I’ve been trying to figure out how to reference the latter half of the 50s (the season in life, not the decade when Rock ‘n’ Roll was born). It’s a bit disingenuous to ...

When adults look at adolescents, they often see what they wish they had—vitality, a future full of possibilities, luscious locks of hair. British sociologist Cyril Smith, writing in 1968, says, ...