The English historian Ronald Fraser has died. He was the author of a number of books on Spanish history including In Search of a Past and In Hiding, which Arthur Miller… Read more »

An extraordinary Associated Press obituary of John Sargent Sr., who was the CEO of Doubleday from 1963-78 and published everyone from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Stephen King, and hired Jacqueline Kennedy… Read more »

Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died at her home in Krakow yesterday.  She was 88 years old. According to a New York Times obituary, “Szymborska, a heavy smoker, died in… 1 / Read more »

George Whitman, the American who owned one of the world’s most well-known — and beloved — bookstores, Shakespeare & Company, famously located on the Left Bank of the Seine in… Read more »

Our author, the renown novelist, screenwriter, and translator Gilber Adair died in London last week. As his friend Henry Porter observes in a remembrance for The Guardian,”He had been frail… Read more »

Noted American poet Ruth Stone is dead at 96. Stone, born on June 8, 1915, in Roanoke, Virginia, died Nov. 19 of natural causes at her home in Ripton, Vt,… 1 / Read more »

Designer, critic, and painter Peter Campbell, best known for his contributions to the London Review of Books—which included a biweekly watercolor for the magazine’s cover and a review—died October 25… Read more »

July 1st was the 50th anniversary of the day Ernest Hemingway ended his life, and in a New York Times op-ed column to mark the day, Hemingway’s long-time friend and… 2 / Read more »

In memory of the actor Peter Falk, who died Thursday in Beverly Hills.

A. Whitney Ellsworth, one of the founders of The New York Review of Books, and its publisher for nearly 25 years, died on Saturday at his home in Salisbury, Conneticut… Read more »