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

“Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t Homeric in length: “Michael was a miniaturist.”

In an interview, the Monty Python veteran looks back on his experiences performing in the revered sketch troupe and touring the world as a travel host.

Guests at a Manhattan party for the chronicler of Trump and Murdoch included headline writers and headline makers.

His first novel, “Tanguy,” published when he was 24, was a fact-based Holocaust story that one reviewer said “begins where Anne Frank’s diary ended.”

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

His blog, The Shatzkin Files, was an essential read for industry insiders. His observations about the changes digital publishing would bring were prophetic.

The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” he was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.

His best novels, charged with a distrust of authority, retain their sweep and power.

A novelist and short-story writer, she devoted years to a nonfiction project examining of the lives of two eccentric authors who spent decades in Morocco.