Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 NYT > Top Stories By: Robert D. McFadden 1 September 2026 at 03:16 A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim. © Steve Hebert for The New York TimesAuthor Wendell Berry in 2012. The historian Page Smith hailed him as “a prophetic American voice of our day.”
Harald V, Norway’s King as Tradition and Modernity Collided, Dies at 89 NYT > Top Stories By: Alan Cowell 28 August 2026 at 13:49 His 35-year reign opened an ancient monarchy to marriages with so-called commoners and to an incendiary association with Jeffrey Epstein. © Inge Gjellesvik/NTB, via Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesKing Harald V of Norway at his coronation in 1991.
Ratko Mladic, Murderous ‘Butcher of Bosnia,’ Dies at 83 NYT > Top Stories By: Dan Bilefsky 27 August 2026 at 15:44 A general during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, he was convicted in the killing of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe’s deadliest massacre since World War II. © Pascal Guyot/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesRatko Mladic in Sarajevo in 1994. He was captured in 2011 and put on trial for genocide and war crimes.
Yayoi Kusama, Japanese Pop Artist Known for Polka-Dot Paintings, Dies at 97 NYT > Top Stories By: Holland Cotter 27 August 2026 at 12:40 The Japanese artist’s polka-dot-covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s.
Tim Curry, Star of ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ Dies at 80 NYT > Top Stories By: Bruce Weber 27 August 2026 at 01:23 The actor’s gift for garish eccentricity was indelibly appropriate for the outlandish, cross-dressing mad scientist Frank-N-Furter. © Evening Standard/Hulton Archive, via Getty ImagesTim Curry in 1974, the year he starred in the premiere American production of “The Rocky Horror Show” in Los Angeles.
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