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Dick Cavett Takes a Few Questions

To revisit “The Dick Cavett Show,” which ran late night on ABC from 1969 to 1975 (and in various other incarnations before and after), is to enter a time capsule—not just because of Cavett’s guests, who included aging Hollywood doyennes…

A Kaleidoscopic Year in New Yorker Poetry

“Paulina, the gardener’s daughter, cares / about flowers doomed to die,” begins Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s poem “Bouquet” (translated, from the Polish, by Antonia Lloyd-Jones). In this brief, poignant lyric, from this year’s first issue of The New Yorker, life and death…