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Doireann Ni Ghriofa’s “Said the Dead” is a fusion of biography, memoir and poetry drawn from century-old casebooks.

In a new book, the prizewinning biographer Benjamin Moser charts a tradition of Jewish opposition to Zionism and recounts his belated conversion to that view.

In “The Age of Cures,” the journalist Barry Werth shows how American drug manufacturers got big and then came under attack.

His “The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook” made a case for insects as food, while his boisterous cooking demonstrations brought tarantulas and crickets to TV.

In “Hollywood, Ending,” two young actors navigate the highs and lows of the movie industry.

Opera Montana, a small company that has grown recently, presented its first world premiere, based on one of the state’s most beloved stories.

In “Ausländer,” Michael Moritz, the former managing partner of a venture capital firm, examines his inheritance.

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

When she started her new novel, Julie Orringer didn’t know that it would mirror the taxing medical challenges faced by her husband.

In “Shadow Before the Flame,” Catherine Grace Katz puts us back on the famously doomed airship.