In Memoriam

Maggie Smith’s Greatest Literary Role is Also Her Most Complex: Miss Jean Brodie

Vanessa Braganza on the 1969 Adaptation of Muriel Spark’s Novel

 
By Vanessa Braganza  October 7, 2024
In Memoriam

Remembering the Life and Work of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Translator and Activist

By Literary Hub  September 30, 2024
In Memoriam

Looking After the Books: Remembering Children’s Author Joan Aiken

By Lizza Aiken  September 30, 2024
In Memoriam

Remembering Paul Auster

By Literary Hub  May 28, 2024
In Memoriam

My Mother Will Live Forever in the Stories of Alice Munro

By Jonny Diamond  May 16, 2024
In Memoriam

Remembering Alice Munro

By Emily Temple  May 14, 2024
In Memoriam

Remembering My Friend and Agent, Richard Parks

By Elizabeth Graver  May 8, 2024
In Memoriam

Paul Auster has died at age 77.

By Jonny Diamond  May 1, 2024
In Memoriam

Writer, Farmer, Literary Misfit: In Memory of the Late Stanley Crawford

By Alex Trimble Young  March 25, 2024
In Memoriam

Remembering Russell Banks: Mary Morris on Her Long Friendship With the Author of American Spirits

By Mary Morris  March 5, 2024
In Memoriam

In a Memoriam: A Poem by Anthony Brian Smith

By Anthony Brian Smith  February 16, 2024
In Memoriam

On the Long, Lonely Apprenticeship of the Writing Life

By Kayla Min Andrews  January 10, 2024
In Memoriam

RIP Shane MacGowan: 7 Pogues Songs That Would Make Great Short Stories

By Jonny Diamond  December 1, 2023
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Jonathan Galassi Remembers His Friend, the Great Robert Gottlieb

By Jonathan Galassi  July 25, 2023
In Memoriam

Remembering Cormac McCarthy

By Literary Hub  June 13, 2023
In Memoriam

Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her

By Literary Hub  April 3, 2023
In Memoriam

“This Boy is Going to Be a Writer.” Remembering Paul La Farge’s Childhood

By Wendy Walker  March 15, 2023
In Memoriam

In Memory of a Poet:
Carolyn Forché Remembers Charles Simic

By Carolyn Forché  March 2, 2023
In Memoriam

Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

By Adam Colman  January 11, 2023
In Memoriam

“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon

By Aminatta Forna  January 10, 2023
In Memoriam

“I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

By Aram Mrjoian  December 22, 2022
In Memoriam

Master of Ceremonies: Melissa Holbrook Pierson Remembers Peter Schjeldahl

By Melissa Holbrook Pierson  November 1, 2022
In Memoriam

Talking to Myself: On The Image Book and the Legacy of Jean-Luc Godard

By Nathan Lee  October 14, 2022
In Memoriam

Two or Three Things I Know About Jean-Luc Godard

By Olivia Rutigliano  September 14, 2022
In Memoriam

Eileen Myles Remembers Bobby Byrd

By Eileen Myles  August 22, 2022
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