Clyde Haberman

Violent crime dropped under his sometimes contentious, sometimes innovative watch. But his response to the fatal police shootings of Black men drew criticism.

He was publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times, where he was also the top editor, and New York’s Daily News. He was later editor of Foreign Affairs magazine.

Daphne Caruana Galizia devoted her life to exposing Malta’s pervasive corruption, writes her son, the journalist Paul Caruana Galizia, in “A Death in Malta.”

The murder of Ms. Genovese, and her neighbors’ reaction to it, generated headlines. The nature of her relationship with Ms. Zielonko was a different story.

She made documentaries of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” and her daughter Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides” and recalled their lives in books.

An entertaining new history by Steven Johnson explores an explosive moment when terror and nascent surveillance collided.

A native of Morocco, he often embodied the resentment of North Africans and Middle Eastern Jews toward European Israelis.

In a wide-ranging career (from “M*A*S*H” to “Ordinary People” to “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”), he could be endearing in one role, menacing in another and just plain odd in a third.

Stalking the aisles, microphone in hand, he turned “The Phil Donahue Show” into a participation event, soliciting questions and comments on topics from human rights to orgies.

You have to go way back to the days of the secular saint Fiorello La Guardia to come up with a New York mayor unencumbered by significant baggage.