As I write, the magazine will presumably be sold, or merged, or limited to occasional issues on specific themes, or simply closed. There were, in recent months, three, perhaps penultimate, instances of the ironic echo and the cackling aftermath. In the first issue under David Remnick, Ms. Browns successor, all of Talk of the Town which had been devoted, by tradition, to a single subject only on matters of state or principle, was devoted to a sort of Festschrift for Tina Brown—making her, over a period of more than fifty years, by far the person most frequently mentioned in that section of the
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