About Brendan Gill: Brendan Gill. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine.
If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.
Parody is homage gone sour.
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
