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The so-called Saudi princess was only one of the many identities Lisa Walker tried on like jewelry.

“It”-girl author Plum Sykes worries about what to wear to her book parties.

The four NYU students who’ve jumped to their deaths grimly illustrate new research: Suicide can be a fad.

Mild bipolar disorder may be to this decade what depression was to the nineties, thanks to a new drug and an expanding definition. But when do ordinary peaks and valleys become pathological?

Put your body in these experts' hands. Our rundown of some of the city's best skin-care technicians, massage therapists, personal trainers, fitness instructors, pilates teachers, and yoga instructors.

Founding feminist, Virginia Woolf scholar, and strong-willed enemy of the patriarchy (as well as mother, grandmother, and wife), Carolyn Heilbrun lived her ideals. The right to choose death—she committed suicide in October—was one of them.

This summer, a handful of young, ambitious, Manhattan-bred guys has cornered the market on nightlife in the Hamptons. They make sure Tara Reid is in the house, everyone’s drinking $400 bottles of Perrier-Jouët, and, in return, they get one big payoff: the chance to become boldfaced names themselves.

Not so long ago, an entitled PR girl was the only terror we had to worry about.

They're taking off at Idlewild, with nary a jet in sight.

The rise of Internet dating has brought a sexual openness (not to mention one-night stands) to the younger generation not seen since the seventies heyday of Maxwell's Plum. But can there be too much of a good thing?