We Loved a Serial Columnist: New York Toasts 30 Years of Candace Bushnell’s Original SATC
Thirty years after Sex and the City first ran, Candace Bushnell returned to Observer's pages to explain why the column was never about sex at all.
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David Foster Wallace on John Updike: A Legacy of One
In this archive piece, first published in 1997, a young David Foster Wallace takes a scalpel to John Updike and the postwar "Great Male Narcissists"—not over the prose, which he admired, but over a self-absorption so complete it left nothing behind worth inheriting. What happens when nothing gets passed down but the self?
More Scenes From a Media Marriage: She Wants Fame, He Wants a Mistress
Status, it turns out, isn't always inherited by blood—sometimes it just goes to whoever gets there first.
