I Ditched My Landline—Cutting the Cord of Memory Is Harder
HANGING IT UPThe home telephone, whether rotary dial or push-button, is dying, but the memories associated with it prove infinitely more durable.
Is 'Get Off My Lawn' Buried in a Mortgage's Fine Print?
TURF WARSHe bought his childhood home, and suddenly the sight of beer cans thrown on his yard felt like a call to arms.
Roy Cohn's Diabolical Magnetism
MESMERIZINGJoe McCarthy’s lieutenant, Donald Trump’s mouthpiece—Cohn was a human car crash that even 30 years after his death we can’t stop watching.
MAD Magazine Taught Us to Laugh but Now We Laugh at It
OBSOLETEHad the venerable satirical magazine never existed, there might have been no SNL, no Letterman, no Stewart. But as its apt pupils went mainstream, MAD itself became redundant.
It’s High Time to Bury Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’
RELICThe newsweekly’s Person of the Year feature, once a portentous signifier of national and even international import, has been a running joke for decades. Now it’s not even funny.
Where Thurber and Co. Knocked It Back
Elbow Bending<p>In an excerpt from <i>Cast of Characters</i>, his book about the golden age of The New Yorker, Thomas Vinciguerra guides us through the magazine’s preferred saloons.</p>