Hank Aaron's Lasting Impact Is Measured in More Than Home Runs
An obituary for the baseball legend.
Obituary
'He Was Just Starting'
On the life and legacy of Canadian artist Matthew Wong.
Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction Into High Art
He worked as an engineer developing the technology to make Pringles potato chips before embarking on a prolific writing career. Known as the Melville of science fiction and celebrated for his inventive and challenging work, Wolfe died on April 14 at age 87.
Rob Ford, 1969–2016
An obituary for Toronto’s notorious former mayor.
He Was a Crook
An obituary for Richard Nixon.
Stalin’s Daughter Dies at 85
From a childhood in the Kremlin to a trip to New Delhi carrying the ashes of her Indian Communist lover, defection at the U.S. Embassy… “finally to decades of obscurity, wandering and poverty.”
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO and Co-Founder, Is Dead
Mr. Jobs's pursuit for aesthetic beauty sometimes bordered on the extreme. George Crow, an Apple engineer in the 1980s and again from 1998 to 2005, recalls how Mr. Jobs wanted to make even the inside of computers beautiful. On the original Macintosh PC, Mr. Crow says Mr. Jobs wanted the internal wiring to be in the colors of Apple's early rainbow logo. Mr. Crow says he eventually convinced Mr. Jobs it was an unnecessary expense.
