Why do some children succeed and others fail? Answers don’t come from the ACT, SAT, or other measures of intelligence, Paul Tough say...

According to an ancient Frankish ordinance, “He who claims that someone else is covered in dung shall be liable to pay 120 denari.” In Skamania Cou...

Mary Roach, designated as “America’s funniest science writer” by The Washington Post, takes us on a tour of the alimentar...

Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell conducts a public conver...

Does the 2008 financial collapse lie at least in part at journalists’ feet? Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Dean St...

In a discussion of his book, business management and leadership expert Joel Kurtzman makes the argument that America remains by fa...

Larry Tye discusses his book Superman, the first full-fledged biography of not only the fictional Man of...

After the deaths in the early 1950s of botanist T.J. Fitzpatrick and his wife, a treasure trove of rare books was found in their modest home in Lin...

Rachel Cantor helps local readers escape the winter blahs with a discussion of her debut novel, A Highly Unlikely Scenari...

Best-selling urban fiction author ReShonda Tate Billingsley discusses and reads from her new novel (written with Victoria Christop...