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Jazz icon Oliver Jones dead at 91

Montreal jazz icon Oliver Jones has died at 91. Jones’s family and label, Justin Time Records, made the announcement on social media Wednesday evening. “An exceptional musician, a gentle soul and a friend who touched so many…
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Author Annie Dillard Is Dead At 81

“With the publication of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in 1974, Ms. Dillard, just 28, was recognized as a major new voice in American letters. … In the years to come, she would publish essays, meditations on religion, poems, a theory of…
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