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.

  West 44th Street development. Brendan Gill died of natural causes in 1997 at the age of 83.   Hiding telephone lines in the ivy at Princeton (with M.

He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine. Brendan Gill (October 4 1914 – December 27 1997) wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years.