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American Surrealist

A tribute to David Lynch (1946–2025).

Benjamin Kerstein

21 Jan 2025 · 7 min read

Frans de Waal (29 October 1948 – 14 March 2024) Alamy

Of Monkeys and Men

The Extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal

Lawrence M. Krauss

23 Mar 2024 · 7 min read

Alexei Navalny 1976–2024

The life and death of a complex and courageous dissident.

John Lloyd

23 Feb 2024 · 14 min read

Robert Kemp Adair (1924–2020)—Notes on a Friendship

Reflections on the life and work of a superb scientist, for whom integrity and rigor were paramount.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

12 Jan 2024 · 19 min read

In Memoriam, 2023

A tribute to three pop-fiction authors who passed away this year.

Kevin Mims

19 Dec 2023 · 14 min read

In Memoriam

A tribute to five pop fiction writers we lost in 2022.

Kevin Mims

20 Dec 2022 · 12 min read

The thing about PJ O’Rourke, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 74, was that everyone wanted to be around him. By “everyone,” I don’t just mean the right-wingers I hang out with, most of whom share PJ’s classical-liberal politics, but also neoconservatives like Bill

Charles Murray

16 Feb 2022 · 2 min read

Farewell, Alex Trebek

On Friday, November 6th, between 1 and 2pm Pacific Daylight Time, I participated in an audition for the TV game-show Jeopardy!. Normally auditions are conducted in person at various regional locations around the US. As a Northern Californian, I should have been attending a live audition in San Francisco. But

Kevin Mims

13 Nov 2020 · 14 min read

On Remembrance Day, Celebrating Two Canadian Prisoners Who Took Down an Entire Shipyard

The need for secrecy was therefore paramount. But as he began to plot his sabotage, Clark realized he’d need at least one trusted accomplice.

George MacDonell

11 Nov 2020 · 10 min read

R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear

We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.

Sky Gilbert

6 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

Remembering My Friend Peter Beard

Peter is no longer here to tell us the truth of the matter.

Geoffrey Clarfield

28 May 2020 · 8 min read

Death of an Old-Fashioned Clown

Willard was a kind of Holy Fool even among fools.

Simon Evans

21 May 2020 · 7 min read

So Here's to You, Buck Henry

Most of us are distant spectators to the roped-off paintings that line the museums inside our aesthetic imaginations. Some of the pieces have been removed; others don’t have appropriate labels.