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My Unsentimental Education: Cupid Has Flown the Co-Op (The End of Love in Manhattan)

Candace Bushnell's most searching column asks the question Manhattan had stopped bothering to answer: whatever happened to love?

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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.

10.08.2026 10

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Frisky Sexual Freeloader Makes Hamptons Plans (Janey Wilcox Never Pays for Summer)

Candace Bushnell's field notes on the Hamptons rental market, in which the going rate for a summer house turns out to be measured in favors, not...

23.07.2026 10

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Skipper and Mr. Marvelous Seek Hot Sex in Southampton Hedges

Candace Bushnell's definitive account of what actually happens behind the Southampton hedges—which turns out to be more or less exactly what happens...

20.07.2026 10

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