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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...

The four-day HEAR Now Festival turns to the LitRPG/GameLit genre – gamer fiction – late Saturday morning, when a group of writers and narrat...

The four-day HEAR Now Festival returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all forms. Leading off Thursday evening: a disc...

Susan Rademacher, a leader in the nationwide parks conservancy movement for three decades, examines the challenge of keeping Kansas City’s signature s...

Help kick off the Library’s annual Summer Reading Program, Dare to Discover, a celebration of reading about space, science, explorati...

Marking this year’s observance of Banned Books Week from September 18-24, a panel of veteran librarians from Kansas City-area libr...

Start the holiday season with a festival at the Library, overlooking the beautiful Plaza lights. Listen to live music while enjoying cookies and a...

Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po...

Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc...

As the civil rights movement waned in the 1960s and early ’70s, federal programs promoted a new means of racial equality: the franchising of McDona...