Mr. Fox, in a sense, survived the Titanic twice, but was best-known for his role on “Bewitched.” By Richard Sandomir. (Dec. 15, 2016)

Jefferson Pooley on the unlikely career of Marshall McLuhan, and the Luddite message of “The Mechanical Bride.”

It’s funny, knowing that, if I were living in one of my favourite minds, I might want to turn it off. By Sasha Chapin.

After the deaths of these 10 notable people, The New York Times photographed their private spaces — as they left them. Photographs by Mitch Epstein.

Piers Sellers, a British-born climate scientist and NASA astronaut who launched on three space shuttle missions, died on Friday (Dec. 23). He was 61. By Robert Z. Pearlman.

Remembering Muhammad Ali, Gwen Ifill, David Bowie, Natalie Cole and more of those we lost in the past year.

Faulkner created Yoknapatawpha County. Welcome to [Gabriel] García Márquez’ Macondo. By William Kennedy. (Jan. 1973)

When his Senate primary opponent, Howard Metzenbaum, challenged his military service, John Glenn had the perfect response. By Brian Adam Jones.

A generous reminder that we must aim for “a revelation in the heart rather than a confrontation or a call-to-arms or a defense.” By Maria Popova.

“The assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy blew up a lot of patience. The Democratic Party, hell-bent on the atrocious Vietnam war, careened toward its 1968 crack-up, in which the demonstrations that Tom helped organize at the Democratic Convention in Chicago played no small part.” By Todd Gitlin.

Today would have been Mary Morgan’s 95th birthday. By Daniel Oberhaus.

For almost sixty years, the weekly St. Louis Evening Whirl brazenly attacked criminals, exposed the sexual peccadilloes of the black bourgeoisie, and racked up millions in libel claims— most of the time in iambic, rhyming couplets. By Scott Eden.

Mr. Zacherle was one of early television’s horror-movie hosts, playing an undertaker and other characters on stations in Philadelphia and New York in the 1950s and ’60s. By William Grimes,

Jennifer Frey drank herself to death. By Dave McKenna.

As Cambridge celebrates the life and work of one its most famous musical sons, BBC News looks at the legacy Syd Barrett left in the city and beyond. By Jodie Halford.

R.I.P. Hannah.

As many speculate what may have led to Mirra’s death, friends say that he struggled with being an aging athlete who no longer dominated his competition. By Matt Higgins. (Feb. 17, 2016)

Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who was in the vanguard of the movement to stop the Vietnam War and became one of the nation’s best-known champions of liberal causes, has died in Santa Monica after a lengthy illness. By Michael Finnegan.

These heroes helped decide the outcome of the war. By Erin Kelly.

While embedded with troops in Afghanistan in the late 2000s, war photographer and writer Michael Yon captured numerous photos of the sparkling halo that can appear when a helicopter’s rotors hit sand and dust... By Michael Zhang.