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In the contemporary elegance of the Central Library’s fifth-floor Helzberg Auditorium, saxophonist Vince Gnojek and pianist...

They’re artifacts, nearly 400 years old, and only 233 are known to have survived to today. But what else has driven collectors to pay as much as $6 mi...

More than 400 years have passed since William Shakespeare penned his last play. And yet his prose, plots, and characters are as alive today as they...

The late 19th- and early 20th-century millionaire businessman Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily spent a lifetime tracking down one of literature’s...

His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...

When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a ra...

The latest installment of Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III spotlights two of the Midwest’s greatest artists, Kansas City’s Thomas...

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

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

The three artists behind the new exhibition Measured Space – on display in the Rocky and Gabriella Mountain Gallery through May 22...