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Death of a Poet
Saying goodbye to Jim Carroll.  
Gerald Howard   Sep 18, 2009   Obit  
Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009)
The Kennedy who most changed America.  
Timothy Noah   Aug 26, 2009   Obit  
John Hughes
He reinvented the teen movie for an entire generation.  
Dana Stevens   Aug 07, 2009   Obit  
Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009 
Watching the anchorman in a news family.  
John Dickerson   Jul 18, 2009   Obit  
Death of the Whiz Kid
Robert Strange McNamara, 1916-2009.  
Fred Kaplan   Jul 06, 2009   Obit  
King Michael
Thriller was Michael Jackson's masterpiece. It was also his curse.  
Jody Rosen   Jun 26, 2009   Obit  
"What Are They So Scared Of? I'm Just a Little Old Lady."
Alison Des Forges, 1942-2009.  
Michael J. Kavanagh   Feb 16, 2009   Obit  
Rabbit at Rest
The best of Updike, the worst of Updike, and why the two are connected.  
Troy Patterson   Jan 27, 2009   Obit  
Father Richard John Neuhaus
Remembering the theologian.  
Michael Sean Winters   Jan 09, 2009   Obit  
Paul Newman
He used his fame to give away his fortune.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Sep 27, 2008   Obit  
Infinitely Sad
David Foster Wallace, self-absorbed genius.  
Troy Patterson   Sep 15, 2008   Obit  
Sydney Pollack, RIP
Hollywood's greatest mensch remembered.  
Dana Stevens   May 28, 2008   Obit  
Remembering Rauschenberg
Greatness and golden slippers.  
Jim Lewis   May 14, 2008   Obit  
Martin Pawley
A critic who pushed architects into the modern, technological world.  
Witold Rybczynski   Mar 12, 2008   Obit  
Farewell to the Dungeon Master
How D&D creator Gary Gygax changed geekdom forever.  
Jonathan Rubin   Mar 06, 2008   Obit  
William F. Buckley, RIP
Why we should be (mostly) glad that he outlived his brand of conservatism.  
Timothy Noah   Feb 27, 2008   Obit  
One-Man Counterculture
How Steve Gerber changed comics with Howard the Duck.  
Grady Hendrix   Feb 20, 2008   Obit  
10 Things I Loved About Heath Ledger
What made him irreplaceable.  
Dana Stevens   Jan 23, 2008   Obit  
Karlheinz Stockhausen
In every sense, the composer was on a different wavelength.  
Matthew Guerrieri   Dec 21, 2007   Obit  
The Devil and Ike Turner
Parsing his hits.  
Donald Fagen   Dec 17, 2007   Obit  
Elizabeth Hardwick, 1916-2007
How the extraordinary critic read fiction.  
Jim Lewis   Dec 06, 2007   Obit  
Evel Knievel
The daredevil who jumped and bragged his way to stardom.  
Steve Mandich   Dec 04, 2007   Obit  
The Pugilist at Rest
Norman Mailer's performance comes to a close.  
Jim Lewis   Nov 12, 2007   Obit  
When I Sang With Pavarotti
A soprano remembers working with the great tenor.  
Jane Eaglen   Sep 06, 2007   Obit  
Hold That Shot
The languorous, achingly hip films of Michelangelo Antonioni.  
Dennis Lim   Jul 31, 2007   Obit  
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