Walter Shawlee, the Sovereign of Slide Rules, Is Dead at 73, The New York Times, February 2024

Lucy Morgan, Feared and Revered Florida Reporter, Dies at 82, The New York Times, September 2023

John Train, Paris Review Co-Founder and Cold War Operative, Dies at 94, The New York Times, September 2022

Carolyn Shoemaker, Hunter of Comets and Asteroids, Dies at 92, The New York Times, September 2021

Robert Hollander, Who Led Readers Into ‘The Inferno,’ Dies at 87, The New York Times, June 2021

George Bass, Archaeologist of the Ocean Floor, Dies at 88, The New York Times, March 2021

Chad Stuart, of the Hit British Duo Chad & Jeremy, Dies at 79, The New York Times, December 2020

Judith Jarvis Thomson, Philosopher Who Defended Abortion, Dies at 91, The New York Times, December 2020

Soumitra Chatterjee, Globally Acclaimed Indian Film Star, Dies at 85, The New York Times, November 2020

Bound by Memory, The Telegraph, March 2016 (an appraisal of the writer Intizar Hussain)

The Grammar of Hard Facts, The Economist, May 2015 (review of a biography of the writer Joseph Mitchell)