Files Are Not for Sharing Preschoolers today know that hands are not for hitting and words are not for hurting. But learning about ethics doesn’t stop there. An illustrated primer for everyone still unclear on the rights and wrongs of intellectual property.

Oof This past summer Oof visited New York City from Osaka. Having never been here before, she spent her days exploring, camera in hand, recording a personal log of New York City with an eye to the everyday (but hardly ordinary) people and things that surround us. And at the end of the summer she stayed up all night covering a friend’s kitchen table in tiny strips of pink tape. Andrew Womack interviews her.

The Letters of Gary Benchley, Rock Star: The First Rehearsal In his ninth dispatch for TMN, aspiring rock star Gary Benchley brings his band together for the first practice session, though it’s hard to stay focused when his girlfriend ignores him, his roommates are openly intimate, and his father calls with some unexpected advice.

Peanut: An Introduction There are hundreds of wonderful books on motherhood for women; there are zero decent books on fatherhood for men. Contributing Illlustrator Danny Gregory starts a new series, to continue here every other week, about fatherhood. Welcome to the Peanut.