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An underground party memoir; an argument for nonhuman life.

Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see.

On Tuesday, 22 anonymously nominated Americans were recognized with fellowships and an $800,000 stipend.

James Richardson’s aphorisms; Nora Lange’s novel “Us Fools”

His art included cartoons for The New York Times, collaborations with Elie Wiesel and images that traced the history of antisemitism. He was also a dermatologist.

Roz, the beloved protagonist of Peter Brown’s popular children’s book, gets a glow-up for the big-screen adaptation.

He produced an early photo book about what he called the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” documented his grandfather’s dementia and became a filmmaker.

He created one of the first photo books about the Vietnam War — the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” he called it — and later documented his grandfather’s struggle with dementia.

His publication, Tikkun, was a leading voice for left-wing American Jews. His ideas about “the politics of meaning” were embraced by Hillary Clinton.

After our series on how artists have been affected by loss, we asked readers what helped them when they experienced it. These are 15 of their answers.