“God is beautiful and loves beauty,” said the Prophet Muhammad. Now Harvard’s Ali Asani explores various artistic and literary forms...

Is True Grit’s Mattie Ross a genuine feminist hero or a merely a woman who mimics traditional masculinity? Panelists Brenda...

Like her older brother, Benjamin, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and a shrewd political observer. While he was rich and fa...

In a 2007 college football season filled with unfathomable twists and turns, Missouri and Kansas—unranked at the start of the season—kept...

Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t...

In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe...

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Competition between Kansas and Missouri goes back to the years before the Civil War, when Jayhawkers and “border ruffians” battled over the issue of s...

Time magazine editor-at-large David Von Drehle holds a public conversation with Washington Post reporter...

Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...