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Jennifer Phegley, chair of the Department of English at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, examines how many of our modern...

Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda introduces Kansas City’s 2010 Big Read selection—Marilynne Robinson...

The Big Read brings author Marilynne Robinson to Kansas City on Wednesday, May 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the...

The earliest deceit in Old School centers on a high school student who conceals his Jewish heritage from his classmates. To understand h...

The Kansas City Public Library hosts A Conversation with Tobias Wolff, author of the Kansas City Big Read select...

A National Endowment for the Arts initiative, The Big Read returns to Kansas City in April 2009 to bring reader...

Brian Daldorph presents Real Characters: The Writing Lifestyle Depicted in Old School on Wednesd...

The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and politica...

In his memoir Sometimes There Is A Void award-winning South African author Zakes Mda chronicles his yout...

The 2013 Kansas City Architecture Series examines how historic buildings in Kansas City’s downtown area have been repurposed and g...