Ageism in the New Yorker

Ageism in the New Yorker
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In The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik confidently asserts that “lyric poetry is for the young.”

This is incorrect, and it is ageist. Perhaps it is sufficient here to quote from a New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell, “Late Bloomers,” October 20, 2008:

Does Adam Gopnik bother to read his own magazine?

Does his editor?

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