Obituary
Layering up, scraping off
Frank Auerbach aimed only at one memorable image
Britain’s most obsessive figurative painter died on November 11th, aged 93
Three donkey-loads of ice
Baltazar Ushca climbed Chimborazo twice a week
The last Ecuadorean ice-harvester died on October 11th, aged 80
The Prince of Bel-Air
Quincy Jones ruled popular music for half a century
The producer, arranger and film-score writer died on November 3rd, aged 91
The necklace in the bread
Lily Ebert lived to share her story of Auschwitz
The Holocaust survivor and memoirist died on October 9th, aged 100
The Grand Infiltrator
Fethullah Gulen tried to transform Turkey in the subtlest ways
The scholar, teacher and activist died on Ocrober 20th, aged 83
The boy who aged too fast
Sammy Basso led research into his own rare disease
The Italian biologist and longest-lived progeria patient died on October 5th, aged 28
Two towers of white spray
Yoshioka Masamitsu saw Pearl Harbor from the air
The last of the attackers on the “day of infamy” died on August 28th, aged 106
Obituary
Maggie Smith, the dowager countess of comic timing
She could transform herself into anyone, hilariously
The storyteller of Beirut
Elias Khoury encapsulated the confusions of the Middle East
The Lebanese novelist and activist for Palestinians died on September 15th, aged 76
The land of forgetting
Francisco Lopera’s travels in the Andes began to solve a great mystery
The Colombian neurologist and Alzheimer’s researcher died on September 10th, aged 73
Samba plus sunshine
Sérgio Mendes sent Brazil’s party spirit out into the world
The pianist, arranger and bandleader died on September 5th, aged 83
How to mend a cathedral
Simon Verity believed in working the medieval way
The stonemason and grotto-builder died on August 11th, aged 79