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Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...

As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...

Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most acc...

Author Daniel Woodrell discusses his new collection of short stories, The Outlaw Album, in a discussion led...

Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, with K...

Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...

Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...

Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominently i...

In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe...

Dwight Eisenhower was a man of simple tastes but decisive action. Behind the dry smile was a brilliant, intellectual tactician, an attribute—als...