Liu Xiaobo: Keeping Alive
Liu Xiaobo, one of the world’s most courageous men, Chinese dissident, died of liver cancer in a Chinese hospital, died …
Category Archives: Passings
Resisted War, Resisted Racism, Resisted Silence: George Houser
Ninety Nine years is only the last accomplishment of George Houser’s amazing life: WW II conscientious objector, 1940 Co-founder of the …
Thinking About Good-bye
It’s been a week of saying good-bye, to those I’ve admired for work done and lives lived, most of whom …
Gabo, Gone
Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, …
Pete Seeger: Gone
The legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94. For nearly seven decades, Seeger …
Toshi Seeger Gone
What a great woman and companion Toshi Seeger was! A good life lived. Toshi Seeger, whose husband the folk singer …
Carlos Fuentes: Passing On
Many obituaries for Mexico’s famed novelist and social critic, Carlos Fuentes. Here is what the Washington Post writes. Mr. Fuentes …