
How The Times decides who gets an obituary.

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more me... See more
Superhuman

news that’s fit to print,” but it delivered a large enough proportion of published topics that, as a practical proposition,