Award-winning author and scholar Imani Perry discusses her new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People. Her dozens of short ess...

Mini author fair and discussion with a Kansas City-based author and a bookstore owner about the history and ongoing popularity of the romance genre....

Alison Rollins, winner of the fifth annual Maya Angelou Book Award, kicks off her Missouri tour with a poetry reading and discussion....

Historian Adam Arenson discusses the culture clash over moral systems during the Civil War and competing visions for the nation’s future....

Missouri Sports Hall of Famer Michael Watson and former coach Myron Piggie discuss Watson’s new book about the 1990s “pay for play” scandal....

Historian and translator Sarah Ruden identifies seven pieces of literature that led to doctrines of control over women’s bodies....