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Obituary
April 18, 2019
Jeet Heer
Gene Wolfe Was the Proust of Science Fiction
Out of the trauma of war, Wolfe found redemption in Catholicism and his voice in futuristic, philosophical novels.
March 5, 2019
Jo Livingstone
Who’s Afraid of The Prodigy?
Remembering Keith Flint and the techno-apocalyptic aesthetic that dominated pop culture at the turn of the millennium.
January 25, 2019
Jo Livingstone
Remembering Diana Athill
The renowned literary editor and writer, who has died at 101, lived a long and glorious life of the mind.
September 6, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Burt Reynolds, America’s mustache, has died at 82.
September 29, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Hugh Hefner Was Never The Star of
Playboy
His greatest achievement was the brilliant criticism he provoked from women.
September 8, 2017
Maggie Doherty
The Courageous Radicalism of Kate Millett
The feminist intellectual died on Wednesday at 82. Her unapologetic utopianism offers lessons for all of us.
September 6, 2017
Evan Kindley
How Should We Grieve John Ashbery?
The poet died this week at 90.
May 30, 2017
James Pogue
Denis Johnson Saw What America Was Becoming
The writer focused his talent on illuminating those the country left behind.
April 14, 2017
Jo Livingstone
The Art of the
New York Times
Obituary
A new documentary examines the strange lives of the journalists who man the death-desk at the paper of record.
December 27, 2016
Sarah Jones
Watership Down is a fitting tale for 2016.
September 14, 2015
Arthur Goldhammer
Stanley Hoffmann Was One of the Great Professors of Our Time
June 17, 2015
Michael J. Agovino
Ornette Coleman, the Saxophonist Who Transformed Jazz
November 24, 2014
John McWhorter
Marion Barry Could Have Been a Great Mayor in Any Other American City
How D.C. brought out the worst in its infamous leader
October 21, 2014
Chloe Schama
My Weekend With Oscar de la Renta
June 26, 2014
Norman J. Ornstein
Howard Baker Was the Kind of Reasonable Republican That Hardly Exists Anymore
The Senate majority leader showed that decency, patriotism, and hardball politics can coexist
June 7, 2014
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Winston Churchill's Last Surviving Daughter Was the Grandest of Grand Dames
May 5, 2014
Edward Glaeser
Gary Becker Helped Invent the Economics of Everything
April 18, 2014
Ilan Stavans
García Márquez Was More Important for Spanish Literature Than Cervantes
February 2, 2014
David Thomson
Philip Seymour Hoffman: 1967-2014
January 28, 2014
David Hajdu
Pete Seeger: "For Too Much of My Life, I Preached to the Converted"
A previously unpublished interview
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