The 22-year-old camerawoman and four Afghan soldiers were blown up in July 2013.

Tim Parks reviews “The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of ‘Les Misérables’” by David Bellos.

Terry Southern’s life in letters. By Will Stephenson. (Mar. 22, 2016)

On Wednesday, my girlfriend died. She was an artist who lived in Providence, Rhode Island. She was 41 years old. By Lisa Williams.

Eric Gill was one of the great British artists of the 20th century – and a sexual abuser of his own daughters. A new exhibition at Ditchling asks: how far should an artist’s life affect our judgment of their work? By Rachel Cooke. (Apr. 9, 2017)

Long before he drummed on upended pails at People’s Park in Berkeley, Calif., Mark Hawthorne wrote about impromptu instruments in Washington Square Park... By David W. Dunlap.

Nudibranchia or other opisthobranchia compared to the various looks of David Bowie.

Jimmy Breslin was the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, the best columnist in New York City. By Jason Silverstein, Larry McShane.

Above all else, Dad was a writer and a voracious reader – his copy of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall was annotated, read, reread and worn. By John Carter Cash.

DeKnight was Ebony’s first food editor and author of a best-selling African-American cookbook in the ‘40s. Her recipes presented a vision of black America that was often unseen in mainstream media. By Donna Battle Pierce.

Professor Abbadi was a historian of Greco-Roman antiquity and the visionary behind the revival of the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt. By Jonathan Guyer.

Two biographies of Evelyn Waugh show him as a cruel father, but seek to reinstate him as the pre-eminent novelist of his era. Violet Hudson reviews.

On John Berger, a writer of our time. By Joshua Sperling.

"He questioned greed, monuments, glib cruelty, and received wisdom. He felt that when we look at an artist’s work we are taking in how they themselves look at everything else, and that doing so 'increases our awareness of our own potentiality.'” By Ben Ratliff.

NYC investigative reporter wrote the book on Donald Trump, was a scourge to mayors and power brokers.

56 years ago today, Congolese prime minister and anticolonial leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. By Sean Jacobs.

Professor Smith, whose work has been a college fixture for decades, pursued enlightenment in churches, monasteries and even Timothy Leary’s living room. By Douglas Martin and Dennics Hevesi.

Parfit isn’t a household name, but his ideas were profound. By Dylan Matthews.

Brian Knappenberger

A Hollywood studio artist, painter, printmaker, calligrapher and maker of fantastical kites, Mr. Wong was one of the most celebrated Chinese-American artists of the 20th century. By Margalit Fox,