An excerpt from "Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir."

Education about spiders dispels fear, avoids misconceptions and instils a sense of appreciation and wonder

As the pop star lightens up and gains a sense of humor, it's time to take the savvy singer quite seriously

He is also very worried about Hillary Clinton and America's dwindling "power and prestige"

Did that gesture mean he wanted to slit my throat? Or that Iran was slitting its own?

The author of "Bad Behavior" picks her five favorite short stories.

Fox has a new way to scare its old white audience: Not just drug mules but terrorists are coming up from Mexico

A "shocked and outraged" Trey Parker speaks out on Fox's fumble.

On the front lines were female tennis players who refused to adhere to the club dress codes that banned them

Done right, Internet griping can shame Seth McFarlane and ruin Todd Akin. Done wrong, it's phony, Dowd-esque shlock

In one of his final interviews, Paul Walker spoke to Salon about film and fatherhood

What's wrong with me? I've got everything a girl could want, and yet I'm just so miserable!

Caleb Followill talks about the transition from being the preacher's son to opening for U2.

Sedgwick talks directing her husband in sci-fi flick "Space Oddity," climate change and taking risks at every age

NSFW: From the New Lovers erotic novella by Andrea McGinty, a passionate encounter in a European hotel