Matthew Quirk doesn’t simply write spy thrillers. To the extent he can, he lives them first – in the case of Dead Man...

A year after admonishing Democrats in his book Listen, Liberal: Or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? – an insightful prelude...

The Blizzard of 1949¬actually a series of storms that began late in ’48¬remains the stuff of legend. From Kansas to the Canadian border, an area ne...

Compromise and accord seem more elusive than ever in this era of bitter political partisanship. But mediation expert Mark Gerzon s...

Michelle Boisseau’s fifth book of poems, Among the Gorgons, makes “graceful and unexpected leaps from personal to mythic,...

Louise Nevelson is considered one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century, known for her pioneering assemblages and monumental...

While at sea in April and May 1945, immediately following his liberation from nearly three years of Japanese captivity, David L. Hardee put his exp...

Dodge City, Kansas, still conjures images of the wild and unruly West: streets lined with saloons and brothels and a populace thick with gunmen, ho...

Francine Prose describes herself as a “sentence person” – a best-selling author, reviewer, distinguished writer in residence at Ba...

Irish immigrants were the first large ethnic group to settle in Kansas City and literally helped carve out its skyline, cutting roads into the lime...