We Lost a Lot More Than William Friedkin Yesterday
A way of making movies, and thinking about movies, is vanishing
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Remembrance
Elegy for the Publishing Industry
Recent wave of editorial layoffs reminds us that the book world we loved is gone
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Milan Kundera, RIP
The world has lost a brilliant satirist and a champion of intellectual freedom
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The Best of Alan Arkin
Clips from the long and excellent career of one of our best character actors, who passed away last week
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Cormac McCarthy Is Dead
A poet of violence and horror goes peacefully into the sunset
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Considering Martin Amis
Revisiting the literary legacy of a gadfly and provocateur
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Oe Warned Us
Japan’s second Nobel laureate, who died earlier this month, would not let his nation forget the dehumanization of war
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Memories of Reading John Jakes
The works of the pop-history writer, who died last week at age 90, were my first foray into “grownup” fiction
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Burt Bacharach Changed Music in Movies Forever
The man who created the soundtrack for a generation passed away last week
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The World of Paul Johnson
The late historian didn’t have a lot of friends on the left, but his popular histories help explain the present day
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Charles Simic, Among The Stars
A tribute to the poet laureate, who has died at age 84
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Russell Banks, RIP
The U.S. has lost its leading storyteller of blue-collar despair
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Why Enzensberger Matters
Germany’s greatest postwar intellectual rejected labels and opposed tyranny in all forms
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Peter Straub, Literary Giant, Passes Away at 79
Writers mourn novelist, whose output went beyond the horror genre
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Neal Adams Remembered
Legendary comics artist passed away last week at age 80
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