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In honor of Women’s History Month, SALT, a team of five artist educators, presents A Mosaic of Mothers, micro-operas that amplify Midwestern women’s e...

Clay Risen’s new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, speaks to the divisiveness of our contemporary moment. A...

NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest offers unsigned bands a chance to play a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Live + Local, a partnersh...

The role of women in Kansas City’s development is often overlooked. Kathy Krause, professor emerita of French at the University of Missouri-Kansas Cit...

Kansas Citian Rebekah Taussig reads her new children’s book, We Are the Scrappy Ones, an ode to those who navigate a world that isn’t designed with th...

St. Louis-based author Soman Chainani talks about Coven, a standalone adventure based on the story of the witch coven in his bestselling School for Go...

Rebekah Taussig discusses her book Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body. The author, who lost the use of her legs as a...

Jamel Brinkley discusses his 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award winner, Witness: Stories. The 10 stories, set in New York City, question what it means to be...

A public library’s mission is simple but powerful: to be a place anyone can enter, free of charge, and encounter a universe of ideas and resources. Th...

In his new book Ports to Posts: Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century, historian Fred E. Woods details the Mormon journey to and throu...