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In Memoriam
January 17, 2025
John Semley
The Inimitable Weirdness of David Lynch
The filmmaker, who died this week, mixed the menacing with the everyday, the banal with the surreal and sublime.
December 16, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
UnitedHealthcare CEO Death Sparks Outrageous Complaint from TV Host
Apparently, America is not sufficiently mourning the UnitedHealthcare chief.
April 13, 2015
William Giraldi
Günter Grass's Hemispheric Upheaval
"Who among us wishes to be smeared always for the recklessness and lunacy of our youth?"
March 2, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
What Leonard Nimoy Meant to My Nerdy Mother in 1970s Texas
February 14, 2015
Sam Eifling, Bijan Stephen
A Reporter Leaves His Beat
David Carr, 1956 - 2015
February 9, 2015
Alec Hanley Bemis
What It Was Like to Study Under Robert Stone
Rest in peace, merry prankster
August 12, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Robin Williams' Death Is a Wakeup Call for Mental Illness
August 12, 2014
Stanley Kauffmann
This Was Robin Williams's Best Non-Comedic Performance
March 10, 2014
Howard Markel
Remembering Sherwin Nuland, a Surgeon Who Healed With Words
March 5, 2014
The New Republic Staff
Stanley Kauffmann Memorial
February 11, 2014
David Thomson
Shirley Temple Sold the Idea That a Cute Kid Had the Cure for the Great Depression
February 2, 2014
David Thomson
Philip Seymour Hoffman: 1967-2014
August 26, 2013
William Galston
Remembering Jean Bethke Elshtain
August 14, 2013
Paul Berman
A Pop Star Is Dead, But Her Sexiness Is Immortal
February 22, 2013
David Thomson
R.I.P. Alan Sharp, a Writer Too Dark for Hollywood
February 18, 2013
Charles Fried
Remembering Ronald Dworkin
May 7, 1991
Sidney Blumenthal
Mario Cuomo Had the Most Divided Mind in Politics
The confessions of St. Mario

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