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An influential arts administrator and educator, he was a trusted confidant to countless writers, notably Philip Roth.

His anthology “Technicians of the Sacred” included a range of non-Western work and was beloved by, among others, rock stars like Jim Morrison and Nick Cave.

His anthology “Technicians of the Sacred” included a range of non-Western work and was beloved by, among others, rock stars like Jim Morrison and Nick Cave.

Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start.

“Lucky” features a 1970s singer-songwriter who finds improbable success.

The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.”

The children in three illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves.

His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.

By merrily using fiction to dissect itself, he was at the vanguard of a movement that defined a postwar American style.

How did gender become a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject has answers.