Joe Daly remembers only one breakfast during college. He’s glad it was this one.

David S. Wills takes a very serious look at the state of contemporary Chinese society.

Meg Worden takes shelter from a hurricane with her narcissism, her boyfriend and the woman he would rather be with.

Is this Heaven? No, it’s Iowa. Which is Heaven with torrential rain.

The TNB road trip ambles on through the Deep South. On this leg, there are talking cross signals, girls in bikinis and the famed Southern charm.

Zara Potts reports from the highways and byways of America. This stop: Nebraska to Erie.

How to get laid by pretending to know Asian music.

This is all Brad Listi’s fault. He had to go and talk about the weather, didn’t he? I was sitting in my car yesterday, watching as, in the space of about five minutes, the sky turned black. Soon after, something hit the roof with a high-velocity ‘clunk!’ What the fu- I thought, and suddenly hail [...]

Matthew Gavin Frank, while stumbling through a rainy market in Alba, Italy, encounters a “tiny knuckle of a man” who, via near-wordless verve, reinvents the fig.