Death Archives

Death

Silent Majority

by John Berger,

From Portraits, by John Berger, which was published last month by Verso. A contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine, Berger is the author of numerous books, including Ways of Seeing (1972).

Lipstick

by Luz,

By Luz, from Catharsis, his memoir about the terrorist attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in January. Luz, a cartoonist for the magazine, was late to work on the…

Dressed to Kill

by John Crowley,

For my birthday last year, my wife bought me three hours with Chris Davis, a master falconer and breeder of hawks. My time would be spent meeting the hawks that…

The Joke

by Justin Smith,

By Justin E. H. Smith, from “The Fundamentals of Gelastics,” a work in progress. Smith’s latest book, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference (Princeton), will be published in June. In…

By Night In Chile

by Lola Arias,

By Lola Arias, from her play The Year I Was Born, recently produced at the Under the Radar Festival, in New York. During the performance, eleven Chilean actors presented autobiographical…

In My Father’s Study upon His Death

by Dylan Landis,

By Dylan Landis, the author of several books, including Rainey Royal, her first novel, published last month by Soho Press.

Stop Time

by Chloe Dewe Mathews, Geoff Dyer,

Remembering World War I’s executed deserters

The Boys on the Block

by Gordon Lish,

My personal memoir

Sirocco

by Michael Christopher Brown,

Last Request

From emails exchanged by employees of the U.S. State Department, an anonymous Iraqi man known here by the pseudonym Omar, and Omar’s brother. In 2011, Omar, who had worked as…

A Brief History of Scent

by Beau Friedlander,

The smell of life and death — and everything in between