Buki Papillon’s acclaimed debut novel An Ordinary Wonder revolves around an intersex Nigerian teenager whose gender...

In a discussion of his book The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America, author and personal finance consultant...

UMKC professor and author Clancy Martin joins Angela Elam, formerly of public radio’s New Letters on the Air...

Poet Brian Daldorph, novelist Barbara Stuber, and Journey House Manager Samantha Pettus join the Library’s Anne Knig...

Former Sumner High School band and orchestra teacher Leon Alexander Brady recounts an impactful career and its 1972 pinnacle: the...

The full truth of the deadly collapse of two 120-foot skywalks in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel in 1981 rested for decades in a manuscript writ...

Lawrence, Kansas, photographer Ann Dean discusses the impact and inspiration found in three seminal books – The Learning Tree...

Drawing from his book Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap, University of Connecticut history professor...

Robert Alter, the foremost modern translator of the Hebrew Bible into English, discusses that work, the significant implications from even t...

In a discussion of his definitive biography, bestselling author Jeff Pearlman discusses the life and exploits of one of the greatest athlete...