Deborah Solomon's Last Supper

Writers ousted from 'Times Magazine' commiserated at dinners

Hugo Lindgren has made a lot of changes as editor of the New York Times Magazine. Before relaunching it in March, he disposed of high-profile columnists Deborah Solomon (“Questions for . . . ”) and Randy Cohen (“The Ethicist”), and altogether terminated the “On Language” column, which Ben Zimmer had taken over from William Safire, as well as Virginia Heffernan’s column on digital culture, “The Medium.”

After the hatchets had stopped falling, Solomon had the departed over to her place—“a beautiful apartment filled with stunning art,” according to Heffernan—for

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