The son of a World War II veteran and himself a decorated former Marine who fought a year in Vietnam, Karl Marlantes based his fir...

Drive through the Mississippi Delta today, and you’ll find it dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Most c...

Writer Claire L. Evans, a contributor to Vice, The Guardian, and Wired and former editor of the multiplatf...

As chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush for 25 years, Jean Becker oversaw everything from the opening of his presid...

Barry Strauss stands as one of today’s foremost classicists, his exhaustively researched and accessibly written books opening window...

As the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival settles into its summer production of Shakespeare in Love, let us reappreciate the genius of...

What if your class took a field trip to the moon … and you missed the space bus back to Earth? Local author and illustrator John Hare...

In her new book Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet Do...

Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expre...

The four-day HEAR Now Festival turns to the LitRPG/GameLit genre – gamer fiction – late Saturday morning, when a group of writers and narrat...