The All Girls School How do girls include or exclude each other at social functions, and where do they learn it? A gallery of pictures about the relationships between women.

Peanut: Dead Rabbit and Beyond (November) You can have a successful career in your thirties and still pretend you’re 18, carousing at clubs and sleeping on a futon. But to have a baby at the same time? Danny Gregory continues the Peanut with a new installment on adulthood.

The Non-Expert: Gypsy Cabs Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week Pitchaya Sudbanthad helps a nervous tourist understand that mystery of New York City transportation: the unlicensed car that will drive you either to your destination, or to your death!

Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Revisited In the first installment of a new series of re-readings, Yancey Strickler dusts off his dog-eared copy of Metamorphosis and sees it in a decidedly different light.