Samantha Henig, her daughter, is in her late twenties, with a twenty-first-century version of the same career. (She has worked as a Web editor and writer at several publications, including this one, and is now the online editor of the New York Times Magazine.) Together, trading the writing in tag-team fashion, they assess the key departments of twentysomething life school, careers, dating, family-making, and so forth and try to discern how much has actually changed.
NEWYORKER: Semi-Charmed Life