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Bob Mankoff, who has been editing New Yorker 'toons since God knows when, while publishing his own there, in a recent essay with 'toons explored the connection between malice and wit.  Spectacularly. Here's the opener, slightly pruned:  Shakespeare was wrong when he wrote that “Brevity is the soul of wit.” Perhaps “hostility” is a betterContinue reading “New Yorker editor: Hostility is the soul of wit”