Read New York magazine’s Adam Sternbergh as he reignites the age-old New York v. New Yorker magazine stylistic divide in a review of New Yorker writer David Denby’s “Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation.”
Says Stenbergh in his critique:
Snark, as it’s usually understood, is irony’s bastard offspring. It’s irony curdled into something even worse. But irony’s critics were wrong then, just as snark’s critics are wrong today.