Obituaries

The late director’s unique vision and the love that his persona inspires make it easy to forget how winding his path to greatness was.

Success came early for the late British actor, who throughout her career continued to captivate audiences with her edgy, glinting gifts.

For the actor, speaking was synonymous with character.

The actress, who died last week, at the age of ninety-four, changed the history of cinema in her collaborations with the actor and director John Cassavetes.

The Russian poet and essayist was a founding member of the Moscow conceptualist movement, an “implausibly social” presence in Moscow, and a firm believer to the end in the possibility of living in Russia with dignity and decency.

We filmed the Taliban courts together. When my friend and colleague disappeared, I started reëxamining his films and photographs.

For decades, he flung himself around as though he were made of rubber. He was beloved and admired for his songwriting, his rotten teeth, and his tendency toward insubordination.

Henri Cole, Elisa Gonzalez, Jiayang Fan, Katy Waldman, Kevin Young, and Hilton Als commemorate the Nobel-winning poet.

The world owed the Irish musician more than it gave, but her best music turned away from the masses and instead looked inward.

In his novels, action and description were everything.

Close up, he was tender, generous, warm, and heroically funny.

To read the late writer’s work was to behold his singular style.

The great British novelist, who has died at seventy-three, had a true literary vitality that was high-spirited and farcical.

The pastor created a new blueprint for Christian thought, showing how traditional doctrine could address the crisis of modern life.

A painted plane that flew the Alaskan coast.

The jazz musician was perhaps the most consequential of all sidemen, and also a triumphant, ethereal soloist.

She reigned at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, but life wasn’t always easy.

You need to hear only a few bars of a Bacharach song to sense his singular gift.

The absurdity of the universe, even at its most hostile, could not ruffle Paul. If anything, it served as the basis for his creations.

Patti Smith remembers her friend, who possessed the child’s gift of transforming a drop of water into a poem that somehow begat music.