MINNEAPOLIS -- The dead speak out with pride, regret, grief and even humor in the stone and metal monuments at Lakewood Cemetery overlooking Lake Calhoun, home of more than 170,000 graves and ...

Jeon Yoo-seong, a legendary figure in the comedy world who passed away the day before yesterday, did not let go of "laughter" until his final moments. When asked, "What phrase would you like to leave ...

It’s the small, often unintended mistakes that grate at living well and lead to many of life’s supposedly little frustrations. Take typos in an article or column, for example. I mean take them, please ...

AFTER all, what is biography but extended epitaph ? Between the two, the obituary may be regarded as a sort of connecting link. But take the epitaph, pure and simple, as the seed of biography. Here ...

The most remarkable thing about John Ashbery’s later poetry is its iron uniformity of style — a master’s style, highly polished and difficult to penetrate. In “A Wordly Country” (Ecco, 76 pages, ...

The Kalamazoo Gazette is reprinting selected Diether Haenicke columns through the end of the year. Haenicke died Feb. 15. This column was first published Oct. 11, 2000. Occasionally, when I travel in ...

THE NEW SPOON RIVER—Edgar Lee Masters—Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The Spoon River Anthology was published, first serially, then in book form, just before the War. It consisted of compressed, ironic ...