The Supreme Court Is Afraid of Gossip Girls and Boys

Why Justice Kennedy was right to censor the student newspaper at an elite Manhattan prep school.

DoubleX Gabfest: The Opt-Out Blip Edition

Revisiting Lisa Belkin's famed article, and other news of the week.

Writers Remember This Week's Fallen Mags

Eulogies for Gourmet, Cookie, and Modern Bride.

Novelist Amy Bloom on the Death of "Gourmet"

The kind of elitism I love.

If "Modern Bride" Is a Has-Been, What Does That Make Me?

Reflections on the Condé title that gave me my first byline in the '70s.

Goodbye, Gourmet: In Praise of Food Snobbery

Farewell to the mag that eschewed the food industry's move toward quick-fire, celebrity driven easy-cooking shows.

Now How Will I Find the Best Kids' Club in Aix-en-Provence?

Cookie, the ultimate aspirational parenting magazine, was handed its Fleurville diaper bag and shown the door today by Conde Nast (along with Gourmet and a pair of bridal titles).

Rich Older Women Just Want Pringles?

The average More reader "makes about $93,000, around $30,000 more than the average for Vogue, Allure or Harper’s Bazaar.” But its advertisers: Crystal Light, Pringles, Coffee-Mate, Oscar Mayer. Why?

How the New York Times Came to Love JC Penney

The Times ombudsmen scolds Cintra Wilson for a column she wrote recently about J.C. Penney waddling into Manhattan in its “big ole shorts and flip-flops.” I love it when the Times pretends to be populist.

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