Her book "Gone: The Last Days of" The New Yorker (1999) described what she saw as the magazine's decline in the 1980s and 1990s. "The New York Times" called it an "irritable little book" and criticized Adler for claiming that famed Watergate judge John Sirica was a "corrupt, incompetent, and dishonest figure, with a close connection to Senator Joseph McCarthy and clear ties to organized crime", without offering any proof. Adler rebutted this accusation in a detailed article, "A Court of No Appeal", published in "Harper's" in August 2000.