Very sad.

When I did Classics at University, one of our professors would say 'Fagles is wrong' at least ten times per lecture.

Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge has died. Very sad.

Very sad. I shall cheer myself up by remembering his anecdote about avoiding a glassing by reciting a Kurt Schwitters poem at his attackers.

"Comic Linda Smith, a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, has died of cancer at the age of 48."

RIP

Inventor of the microchip dies.

Hasil Adkins is dead. Resquiat in pace.

Twenty five years ago Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division, killed himself. His wife Deborah talks to Laura Barton about getting over him, obsessive fans and why she no longer listens to his music

Saul Bellow dead. RIP.

But as long as people say the word 'rock', he'll still be around!

Lovely obituary of the New Yorker's former Grammarian.

R.I.P.

Edward Said was a great thinker. And it was music that made him tick. Daniel Barenbolm remembers his playing partner

Mr. Derrida was known as the father of deconstruction, the method of inquiry that asserted that all writing was full of confusion and contradiction, and that the author's intent could not overcome the inherent contradictions of language itself, robbing te

Le philosophe français le plus commenté et le plus traduit au monde ces dernières années, notamment aux Etats-Unis, Jacques Derrida, mort dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi à l'âge de 74 ans, était célèbre pour son concept de "déconstruction".

World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president's office said Saturday. He was 74.

Derrida, radical doyen of deconstructionist thought, dies at 74

French philosopher Derrida dies at 74

L'un des philosophe français les plus connus à l'étranger, notamment aux Etats-Unis, Jacques Derrida est mort dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi à l'âge de 74 ans, semble-t-il des suites d'un cancer du pancréas.