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Nancy Franklin

Nancy Franklin joined The New Yorker in 1978 and was the magazine’s television critic from 1998 to 2011.

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4 picks · 1995–2004

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American Idol
on television ·

For the young hopefuls on “The Apprentice,” Trump towers.

The thing about this city.
comment ·

Signed comment about life in New York City. The writer claims that New York City raises more questions than it answers for those that choose to live here.…

The Time of Her Life
profile ·

Nancy Franklin on the playwright: being funny has been Wasserstein’s bread and butter. But it has also been something of a bane.

No Place Like Home
modern life ·

Modern Life by Nancy Franklin, from 1995: “After sixteen years, it came down to a battle of wills: woman versus apartment.”