Jonathan Bryan obituary
Other lives: Author and campaigner for the education of profoundly disabled children
Thomas Neurath obituary
Publisher who led Thames & Hudson for half a century and developed its bestselling World of Art series
Nathan Silver obituary
Other lives: Architect and author who loved opera and served as a juror for the Olivier awards
Reconstruction review – teens re-enact crimes for state-driven pantomime in communist Romania
Lucian Pintilie’s grimly ironic 1968 film is based on real events, in which delinquents are forced to act out their brawl in front of government cameras
Is he still alive? The mystery of DB Cooper – the hijacker who disappeared
In 1971, a man held a plane to ransom for $200,000, then parachuted out in his suit and dress shoes, never to be seen again. What happened to him?
Simon Majaro obituary
Other lives: Management consultant, author and patron of chamber music
Angela Livingstone obituary
Other lives: Translator who made many great works of Russian literature accessible to English readers
Alan Strachan obituary
Director in the West End and regional theatre for five decades who often worked with the playwright Alan Ayckbourn
Michael Rabiger obituary
Other lives: Pioneering documentarian and author who wrote ‘the bible’ for documentary film-makers
John Noone obituary
Other lives: English lecturer and writer who turned from fiction to non-fiction – and back again
Patricia Herbert obituary
Other lives: British Library curator and author of The Life of the Buddha
Qiu Xigui obituary
Paleographer, historian and expert on ancient Chinese writing
Frederick Forsyth obituary
Foreign correspondent who went on to become a hugely successful thriller writer best known for The Day of the Jackal
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o obituary
Distinguished Kenyan novelist, poet and academic who championed writing in African languages rather than in English
Edmund White obituary
One of the leading gay writers of his generation known for his bestseller A Boy’s Own Story and his biography of Jean Genet