Six years ago, filmmaker Vanessa Gould wrote to a half-dozen newspapers around the world with the news that Eric Joisel, the origami artist who was the subject of her first documentary, Between the ...

There’s the old saying that you die twice: once when your physical body expires and then when the last person remembers you. For the Obituary desk at the New York Times, their job is memorialize those ...

The joke used to be that the obits desk at a newspaper was where old journalists went to die. Writing obituaries was seen in the news business as a punishment, not something people wanted to do. But ...