Olga Khazan opens her new book with a crisis. The Atlantic writer is distraught, gulping wine between hard sobs. Why? The stress of her photoshoot for her prestigious magazine, a GPS mishap on her ...

My best friend in high school wasn’t allowed to attend sex-education classes. Her fanatically Christian family strictly prohibited it, and she was relegated to the gym while the rest of us gaped at ...

SEATTLE — Have you ever heard someone describe themselves as an ENFJ or an ISTP and wondered what those letters mean? Joel Mark Witt and Antonia Dodge, authors of the popular "Personality Hacker" book ...

A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY (116 pp.)—John Gunther—Harper & Row ($3.50). Never again can history be the privileged property of historians. It has been invaded in force by straying journalists who are ...

When we talk about our personality, many of us treat it as a fixed, unchanging part of us. But the truth is our personality can evolve and often does, even without us deliberately trying. For example, ...