In a discussion of her book Marriage Markets, the University of Minnesota’s June Carbone – a former law pro...

Kansas Citian June Davis – wife, mother of two, and grandmother of four – epitomizes the character and quiet, often overlooked accomp...

Part of preserving our city’s rich jazz history is caring for the musicians whose inimitable sounds were its essence. Former Kansas City Star columnis...

Infamous characters and sensational incidents abounded in the Ozarks immediately after the Civil War and well into the 20th century. The mining dis...

A tragic chapter in America’s westward expansion turned sensationalistic when some members of the stranded and starving Donner-Reed party of 1846 b...

Veteran British director and master acting teacher Ian Wooldridge has helmed more than 100 stage productions, including The Tempes...

The latest from the imaginative mind of Daniel Handler, better known as A Series of Unfortunate Events author Lem...

In a discussion of one of the year’s most heralded books, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, author Davi...

Yaa Gyasi’s emotionally powerful Homegoing continues to resound a little more than a year after its publ...

After eight nonfiction books including the 1982 best-seller Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon has turned at age 77 to f...