In this special fundraising event benefitting a new creative writing initiative from the Library and UMKC, Academy Award-winning screenwriter ...

We want to make our children readers. The question is: How? Which books are best to read to babies? How do we judge our kids’ reading progress? Are te...

Megan Phelps-Roper took part in her first Westboro Baptist Church protest at age 5. Granddaughter of the late Fred Phelps, patriarch...

In a discussion of his book A Pilgrimage to Eternity, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan recount...

We take our seats in a darkened movie theater, turn ourselves over for a couple of hours to a romantic storyline and the romantic leads, and walk away...

In a discussion of her new memoir Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares, Aarti Shahani walks th...

Author Mallory O’Meara spotlights the history-making but too-long-overlooked creator of one of movies’ most iconic monsters in a d...

Television and Donald Trump grew up together, a synergistic happenstance that carried an attention-hogging, reality TV-imbued, Twitter- and Fox New...

Irish-born comedian David Nihill looks at how stand-up comedy principles can be applied to public speaking, drawing from his book...

What do we make – what does their home state of Kansas make – of Charles and David Koch? Business reporter Christopher Leonard exa...