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Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...

Cassandra Clare, creator of the internationally best-selling Mortal Instruments series, now towers as an author of young-adult fan...

For two years, Harvard University social sciences professor Matthew Desmond embedded himself in two poor neighborhoods in Milwauke...

Craig Cobb was already notorious before trying to take over Leith, North Dakota, and turn it into an Aryan enclave some three years ago. The struggle...

The acclaimed 2010 film Black Swan offers a strange and terrifying interpretation of the dance world, revolving around a bal...

Cote Smith sets his debut novel in the prison town of Leavenworth, Kansas, drawing from his experiences growing up there....

Biographer Arnold Rampersad discusses Harlem Renaissance luminary Langston Hughes and his relationship with a number of photograph...

The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...

At 83, SuEllen Fried’s social conscience has scarcely ebbed. The Prairie Village native – one of former President George H.W. Bush...