Born to stardom, he never knew what it was like to live or even behave normally
By Bill Wyman Jun 26, 2009
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One of rock's first great female songwriters could make even nonsense syllables like "da doo ron ron" sound dirty
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
August 27, 2009
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The tough-guy character actor leaves behind a memorable career in movies and TV -- and then there's "Sekulovich"
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 1, 2009
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It's not what he was known for -- outside diamond circles, anyway -- but the late author penned one of the game's literary gems.
By King Kaufman
January 27, 2009
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Former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick died today -- but her big idea was discredited long ago.
By Scott Rosenberg
December 8, 2006
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Numbers -- like politicians -- don't lie: Kerry can't win in November! Plus: Remembering Ruben Gomez, whoever he was.
July 27, 2004
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George Harrison could be surly and cantankerous, but without him the Beatles would never have been themselves.
By Stephanie Zacharek
December 1, 2001
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The "Portraits of Grief" in the New York Times give us a chance to be loved ones to complete, and wrongfully dead, strangers.
By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
October 12, 2001
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She was hard as nails. She was funny as hell. And she taught me everything I know about beauty.
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 3, 2001
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Whenever I had Boozoo on my ass I felt good.
By Christen Clifford
May 16, 2001
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He had no voice, no looks, no chest, butt or knees. But he kicked a generation in the ass, hard.
By Bill Wyman
April 15, 2001
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A lethally serious book tells who scores a New York Times obituary and why.
By Mike Albo
November 29, 2000
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The award-winning author of "The Blue Flower" published her first book in 1975.
May 2, 2000
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The artist-author and jocular creator of a poisonous and poetic world dies at 75.
April 17, 2000
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In his 12-volume masterpiece, "A Dance to the Music of Time," he manipulated hundreds of characters through seven decades, creating a social history of the 20th century.
By John Perry
April 15, 2000
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By AUDREY WOODS
March 31, 2000
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At the heart of Roger Vadim's films was a guiltless celebration of the pleasures of sex, love, food, sea and sun.
By Charles Taylor
March 6, 2000
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The high priest of voodoo jive put a spell on us with his fiery brand of psychotic rock 'n' roll.
By Whitman McGowan
February 18, 2000
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"Peanuts" made its debut in 1950 and eventually ran in more than 2,600
newspapers in 75 countries.
By Mary Ann Lickteig
February 13, 2000
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February 10, 2000
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February 3, 2000
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER
January 19, 2000
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Remembering the Mad magazine cartoonist who created characters like Fester Bestertester and Karbuncle, yet still had the time to invent National Gorilla Suit Day.
By Steve Burgess
January 15, 2000
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The author of the wildly popular 18th century seagoing saga created, out of his own life, a fiction nearly as elaborate.
By Ian Williams
January 13, 2000
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The humor artist known for wacky words and sick jokes succumbs to cancer at age 68.
January 7, 2000
Michael Jackson's celebrity suicide
RIP, girl group icon Ellie Greenwich
Karl Malden 1912-2009
John Updike, baseball writer
Burying the Kirkpatrick doctrine
Without you
Gentle epitaphs for lives interrupted
The critic: Pauline Kael, R.I.P.
Remembering the king of zydeco
Joey Ramone, R.I.P.
How the World Works