Ben Yagoda

Ben Yagoda is the author of About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made, The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song, and other books.

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Marv Albert’s Last Call

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June 25, 2021 1:00 PM

The Loneliness of the Last Man on Earth Watcher

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May 07, 2018 7:30 AM

When Critics Go Soft, Audiences Pay the Price

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Jan 09, 2018 5:55 AM

On His New Album of Sinatra Covers, Bob Dylan Pays Tribute to an Era He Once Derided

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Jan 22, 2015 1:03 PM

“Y” So Creative? A Very Adjective-y Letter

Oct 17, 2014 1:57 PM

Why It’s Not So Unreasonable to Spell “Espresso” With an X

Aug 18, 2014 12:46 PM

Does Novel Now Mean Any Book?

Aug 04, 2014 11:28 AM

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What’s Going On Around “Around”? New Uses of Old Prepositions.

July 10, 2014 11:21 AM

The Strange 1960s Gym-Class Anthem in Apple’s New iPhone Commercial

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June 13, 2014 4:50 PM

Is Obama Overusing the Phrase the Wrong Side of History? Are We All?

April 17, 2014 11:31 AM

That Word for a Meme-Obsessed, Self-Aware Age

March 25, 2014 2:21 PM

How Weed Became the Hippest Slang Term for Marijuana

March 05, 2014 11:14 AM

Do You Say Amongst Instead of Among? Here’s Why.

Oct 22, 2013 3:51 PM

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How Arrested Development Reinvented the Catchphrase

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June 03, 2013 4:21 PM

I Found the Papers of the Fact Checker Who Worked on “In Cold Blood.” What Did He Miss?

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March 20, 2013 12:11 PM

“I’m Dreaming of a White President”: Randy Newman on His New Song

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Sept 18, 2012 8:59 AM

British People Do Not Actually Call Umbrellas Bumbershoots

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Nov 04, 2011 12:52 PM

Britishisms: cataloging how they’re infecting American English.

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Sept 20, 2011 12:57 PM

Logical punctuation: Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks?

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May 12, 2011 10:07 AM

Disinterested or uninterested? How long we should cling to a word’s original meaning.

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April 07, 2011 10:08 AM

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