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Born and raised in Topeka (which appears in some fashion in all of his works), novelist, essayist, and poet Ben Lerner is one of t...

Author Mallory O’Meara spotlights the history-making but too-long-overlooked creator of one of movies’ most iconic monsters in a d...

In a discussion of her new memoir Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares, Aarti Shahani walks th...

Starting in 1918, at the urging of his son Harry, John Benton Hart began telling stories of a colorful three-year period of his youth. The native K...

We take our seats in a darkened movie theater, turn ourselves over for a couple of hours to a romantic storyline and the romantic leads, and walk away...

Land conversation and climate change expert James Levitt examines the challenges of protecting today’s large areas of natural land, i...

Photographer B.A. Van Sise, whose work is featured in the Library exhibit One Second, discusses the convergence o...

In a discussion of his book A Pilgrimage to Eternity, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan recount...

Fighting across the central Pacific and the dropping of atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki now overshadow a key World War II campaign in 194...

First performed in Turin, Italy, in 1896, La bohème became one of the world’s most eternally popular operas and a signature work of com...