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Novelist and critic Edmund White discusses his new memoir City Boy on Monday, February 22...

Angela Elam, host of the New Letters on the Air radio program, conducts a public conversation with novelist...

Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Writers at Work series with an appearance by National Book Award winner an...

Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...

This event has been canceled at the speaker’s request. We will make every effort to notify interested persons when and i...

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...

Steve Kraske of KCUR’s Up to Date moderates a panel discussion about Kansas City’s financial planning. Feat...

When it opened 40 years ago, Kansas City International Airport and its three-terminal design was hailed as the most convenient airport in the country....

Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boarded...