If things like a clutter-free environment and spending alone calm you down, you might have unusually high intelligence.

Anelise Chen’s genre-bending book “Clam Down” sees an insightful metaphor in a text message typo. By Chelsea Leu Chelsea Leu is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in The Times, The New Yorker ...

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For most people, telling themselves to calm down in the face of a crisis only increases their level of distress. We all know that keeping ourselves calm will help us to think more clearly and deal ...

Anelise Chen is in distress. Her marriage is over, her job security as an adjunct creative writing instructor is tenuous, her mother is annoying her, and … she’s turned into a clam. “She hadn’t meant ...