Poets and writers are often the most dangerous of resistors. In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin put Ukrainian-born poet Anna Akhmatova on his watch list for...

Kansas City-area journalist Christopher Leonard returns to the Library to discuss his new book The Lords of Easy Money...

Director Ridley Scott takes a sweeping look back to the Crusades and the brutal fighting between Christians and Muslims over the First Kingdom of J...

Participants from Glenn North’s May 1 poetry workshop take the stage to share their work. The readings draw heavily from U.S. Poet...

Maybe you know Molière. If not … well, Kansas City’s French roots lend a c...

The Kansas City Repertory Theatre...

In a discussion of his exhibit Dissident Formalisms, Kansas City artist Armin Mühsam examines the use of co...

Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.” The leg...

By most accounts, modern history is rooted in Spain and Columbus and and the discovery of the New World to the west more than five centuries a...

Author Mallory O’Meara joins the Library’s Kaite Stover in a discussion of O’Meara’s new book Girly Drin...