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An opera inspired by ancient Greece that gives a glimpse of what might have been — had its composer only lived past the age of 26.

The journalist Juan Williams is out with a new book this week. In it, he makes the case that his acrimonious termination last fall by NPR is part of a larger and ominous pattern of suppressing undesired voices.

The physician and anthropologist has spent 30 years treating patients in Haiti. In Haiti After The Earthquake, he details what it was like on the ground in the days after the 2010 quake — and why the country is still struggling to recover.

At this time of year, most gardeners have too much of a good thing. What to do with it all? T. Susan Chang offers some tasty breads you can make in the blink of a baker's eye.

It may look like traditional stuffing, but this comforting dish has a twist: crumbles of spicy-sweet Portuguese sausage. Americans nowadays tend to set their holiday tables with foods reflecting many countries' traditions.

How to perfectly poach an egg? It seems everyone has a secret, from the egg itself to the pot or pan to the cooking time and temperature. But there's no mystery, as food writer Janet Zimmerman attests. Practice makes perfect — and opens up a world of luscious recipes.

Substituting for white sugar brings a spirit of adventure to baking for food writer Nicole Spiridakis. Her experimenting started with honey and branched out to agave, molasses, maple syrup and more.

Brian McGackin says his new collection of poetry, Broetry, is for people who don't like poetry: dudes. The book draws inspiration from writers not necessarily known as broets: Robert Frost, who crafted odes to baseball, and Shakespeare, who was "just writing about chicks."

Fifty years ago this October, Joseph Heller first published his American classic, Catch-22. Heller's friend and fellow writer Christopher Buckley reflects on the novel's impact in the introduction to its 50th-anniversary edition.

Many of food writer Deena Prichep's childhood memories of the Jewish holiday involve a bowl of MacIntoshes and a bear-shaped plastic squeeze bottle. But her grown-up sweet tooth craves a more sophisticated way to invoke a sweet new year. Exit the honey cake, enter the rosemary honey apple galette.