Hamish Preston

For Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar · 6d ago

Saw this pop up on a Pakistan politics feed I've followed for years, remembered the Treasury designation story from back when it broke. Strange to see a name like that just end in a one line death notice from Lahore.

For Jonas "Heavy" Stentäpp · 9d ago

Found Mimikry's Automatiskt on a import rack in a Jersey record shop back in 2000, never expected the drummer to end up hosting folkrace telecasts. 50 is no age.

For Cheryl Smith · 14d ago

I don't really know enough about rugby to say anything useful here. My wife showed me the headline, two World Cups and 56, and I just sat with it for a minute. Sorry for the loss, whoever knew her.

For Juan Manuel Escobar · 17d ago

76. Purple Heart, Vietnam, decades in Border Patrol, state house, county judge. One life.

For Jason Walker · 26d ago

56. Only knew him from the Gram Parsons book, picked it up years ago on a recommendation. Solid work.

For Asha Bhosle · 28d ago

92 years old and still putting out new music this year. Didn't know much beyond that Cornershop song till my wife explained who she actually was.

For Maureen Jones · 23 Sept 2026

99 years old and still practising daily. That's the whole story right there.

For David Odell · 21 Sept 2026

My mother called me here in Singapore just to tell me this, said she knew I'd want to know. Dark Crystal scared the hell out of me as a kid, in a good way. 83 is a full life but still.

For John Broughton · 15 Sept 2026

I read Michael James Manaia years ago. One-man play about a Vietnam vet, powerful and spare. Didn't know until now he was a professor too. That's range.

For Raffaele Costa · 12 Sept 2026

A classical liberal in the age of party machines. Costa's books on waste and privilege still matter. Loss for Italian politics.

For Roger Simon · 11 Sept 2026

Politico wouldn't exist the way it did without Roger at the center of it. He set the tone. Generous to younger writers, never talked down. A real loss.

For Nicolas Simion · 4 Sept 2026

Nicolas Simion represented something rare: a European jazz voice that was unmistakably rooted in its own tradition. He spent decades proving that local music and international modernism aren't opposites. The field has lost that conviction.

For Jules Feiffer · 21 Sept 2025

Read Munro to my kids last year. Still holds up. Feiffer understood bureaucracy the way few artists ever have.

For Mario Vargas Llosa · 11 Aug 2025

The last of the great Boom writers. He stood for something that mattered: the freedom to write, to think, to disagree. The literary world is smaller now.

To Ethan Barnes’s tribute on Jim Richards’s page · 15d ago

your grandad had good taste, that Kansas game for third place was something

To Juan Santiago’s tribute on Barry Luokkala’s page · 20d ago

same, didn't expect it to hit like this

To Solveig Nilsson’s tribute on Umberto Pizzi’s page · 25d ago

didn't know that, grim.

To Sunita Menon’s tribute on Nidhi Tiwari’s page · 26d ago

same, saw it shared everywhere today

To Demetrius Simmons’s tribute on Harjit Singh’s page · 18 Sept 2026

He was on duty at Bhagtawala market, per the reports.

To Thandiwe Ochieng’s tribute on Nariko Ott’s page · 17 Sept 2026

same, that show was the one I always dragged people to

To Jonathan Ferguson’s tribute on Patricio Guzmán’s page · 15 Sept 2026

That's a gift your father gave you both. Patricio would have valued that.