The four-day HEAR Now Festival returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all forms. Leading off Thursday evening: a disc...

The U.S. spends far more than other developed nations on health care—a projected $3.8 trillion this year—yet lags in performance and customer satis...

We’re well acquainted with Abraham Lincoln the country lawyer, the principled statesman, the revered martyr. In a discussion of his new historical nov...

A young American flautist, Edwin Rist, broke into the British Museum of Natural History in Tring in 2009 and made off with nearly 300 bird skins. Biza...

Vartan Gregorian’s considerable legacy as a scholar and humanitarian stretches from his presidencies of the New York Public Librar...

With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar...

Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught...

Bruce Katz, director of Drexel University’s Nowak Metro Finance Lab, discusses his book The New Localism: How Cities Can...

In a discussion of the new book Wide-Open Town, its editors – historians Diane Mutti Burke, John He...

Best-selling author and two-time Newbery Medal winner Kate DiCamillo discusses her new juvenile novel Louisiana’s Way Home....