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Nearly 4½ decades after arriving at the Kansas City Art Institute from his native South Wales, Warren Rosser stands as one of the city’s creative mast...

Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...

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Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...

Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop. The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains and mon...

Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominently i...

Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...

Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most acc...

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

As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...