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In these reflections, colleagues, friends and admirers recall his risk-taking, his generosity and his insatiable taste for gossip.

A renowned French scholar and publishing figure, he looked at what societies choose to honor — and forget — in telling their stories.

The author of “The LGBTQ+ Travel Guide” on the reasons the travel publishing giant chose a coffee-table book and how she picked the people and places to feature.

In “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home,” the Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan draws on her life experiences and her family’s multiple displacements across generations.

Our columnist on the twisty, suspense-laden books that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

“Is a River Alive?,” the new book by Robert Macfarlane, is gorgeously written but also windy and sentimental.

In “When It All Burns,” Jordan Thomas brings an anthropologist’s eye to the life-or-death struggle with fire.

In “Deep House,” Jeremy Atherton Lin uses the story of his own life as a catalyst for a kaleidoscopic survey of legal flash points regarding gay rights and immigration.

A renowned French scholar and publishing figure, he looked at what societies choose to honor — and forget — in telling their stories.

A Marxist-turned-Catholic who denounced individualism, he provoked and inspired fellow thinkers and gained a degree of popularity unusual for a moral philosopher.