God save us from Gawker’s world. The New York-based media gossip Web site, which launched in 2002 and has distinguished itself by, among other things, attacking writer Neal Pollack’s young son, Elijah ...

The snark versus smarm debate has flooded our news feeds, after Tom Scocca’s December 5 Gawker article “On Smarm” took off. The piece asked critics and social media users whether their desire for a ...

You have to give David Denby credit for bravery: Writing a book titled Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation is like writing a book titled Keying My Car: It’s the Wrong ...

Oh great: Yet another dumbed-down MSM rumination on snark, that mix of sarcasm and reductive wit that’s come to dominate modern online discourse. Like all snark attacks, this one quickly traces its ...

Chrystia Freeland is the federal member of parliament for Toronto Centre and the author of Plutocrats: the Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. Every age has its fight ...

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Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation, by David Denby, New York: Simon and Shuster, 144 pages, $15.95 Not long ago, New Yorker film critic David Denby had an epiphany: ...