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As an author (often blurring the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction), a film director, a lyricist and a host of TV and radio shows, he sought to capture his epoch.

His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote.

How John Lewis and Coretta Scott King embodied the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy while each creating their own.

In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be.

Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an “extreme acceleration” to the field.

A notable poet in his own right, he was best known for rendering into English the words of a poet who reacted to the Holocaust by inventing a new version of German.

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

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

The novelist talks about his new book, “Wandering Stars,” which offers a view of Native American history through one character’s family story.

The schoolchild innocence of the alphabet is juxtaposed with the violence and instability of the historical moment.