Bringing out the dead.

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• Death of a Poet Saying goodbye to Jim Carroll.
  Gerald Howard Sept. 18, 2009
  
• Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009) The Kennedy who most changed America.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 26, 2009
  
• John Hughes He reinvented the teen movie for an entire generation.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 7, 2009
  
• Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009  Watching the anchorman in a news family.
  John Dickerson July 18, 2009
  
• Death of the Whiz Kid Robert Strange McNamara, 1916-2009.
  Fred Kaplan July 6, 2009
  
• King Michael Thriller was Michael Jackson's masterpiece. It was also his curse.
  Jody Rosen June 26, 2009
  
• "What Are They So Scared Of? I'm Just a Little Old Lady." Alison Des Forges, 1942-2009.
  Michael J. Kavanagh Feb. 16, 2009
  
• Rabbit at Rest The best of Updike, the worst of Updike, and why the two are connected.
  Troy Patterson Jan. 28, 2009
  
• Father Richard John Neuhaus Remembering the theologian.
  Michael Sean Winters Jan. 9, 2009