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“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.

The duo will lead the cast of “Left on Tenth,” a stage adaptation of Delia Ephron’s best-selling memoir.

He wrote with the kind of clarity that was as comforting as it was chastising. Here’s where to start.

In a new biography, the MSNBC host offers an intimate look at Medgar Evers and Myrlie Evers-Williams, both civil rights leaders in their own right.

He helped forge a movement asserting that scholars must put aside their modern-day assumptions and prejudices to fully understand how people acted and thought in the past.