Everyone has a reader in their life, even if that reader is you. In a first-of-its-kind event the Kansas City Public Library’s Director of Re...

As Jen Mann notes, her nationally popular blog is called "People I Want to Punch in the Throat" and not "Rainbows and Unicorns." So i...

Kansas-reared Robert Day, author of the modern western classic The Last Cattle Drive, sits down with Library Director...

What is it like to be the son or daughter of an absolute and ruthless dictator? To bear a name – Stalin or Mussolini, Mao or Ceausescu, Qaddafi or...

The stories seem more prevalent and disturbing today than ever: kids being pushed in one or more sports to the point of burnout before high school,...

Rightly or wrongly—and author Robert E. Litan insists it’s wrongly—the public’s esteem for economists plunged in the w...

Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to t...

Two of youth literature’s best-known authors discuss their new books—Daniel Handler’s Why Is This Night Different from A...

Beginning with a silent short released in 1903, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has intrigued both filmmakers and viewers. Lewis Carroll’...