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The son of a World War II veteran and himself a decorated former Marine who fought a year in Vietnam, Karl Marlantes based his first...

Hollywood actors from a Star Trek-like TV show (Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, and Sam Rockwell) get mistaken for...

Drive through the Mississippi Delta today, and you’ll find it dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Most c...

As chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush for 25 years, Jean Becker oversaw everything from the opening of his president...

One of Saturday Night Live’s signature comedy sketches gets the big-screen treatment, following Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin as stranded cone-...

Barry Strauss stands as one of today’s foremost classicists, his exhaustively researched and accessibly written books opening window...

As the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival settles into its summer production of Shakespeare in Love, let us reappreciate the genius of...

What if your class took a field trip to the moon … and you missed the space bus back to Earth? Local author and illustrator John Hare...

In her new book Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet Do...

The Library punctuates a months-long study of immigration in America with a look into the personal journeys of immigrants who have settled in the Lawr...