Preamble Dancing with the Stars By Lewis H. Lapham The vanity of princes is an old story; so is the wish for kings and the gazing into the pool of Narcissus. More
Essay Consumer Products By Stephen Marche Celebrity culture may seem ahistorical, but its roots reach deeply into the past four hundred years. More
Voices In Time 1949 | Oxford, MS William Faulkner Writes His Epitaph “It is my ambition to be abolished and voided from history.”More
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. —Julie Burchill, 1986
