If ever there were a good time to read the American writer Edith Wharton, who published over forty books across four decades, it’s now. Those who think they don’t know Wharton might be surprised to learn they do. A reverence for Wharton’s fiction informs HBO’s Sex and the City, whose pilot features Carrie Bradshaw’s “welcome … Continue reading “The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century