It’s an odd little song that many of us have caught ourselves singing. We might not even get the words right, but it’s a feeling, a bop. “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” is a well-known “nonsense” song from, of ...

Ogden Nash regularly contributed verse to The New Yorker for more than forty years. His last poem in the magazine was published the week after his death, in 1971. “It was an evening they had planned, ...