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Courtesy/The MIT PressScientific advances allow us to understand fertility more completely and help people have children who otherwise wouldn’t have been able to conceive, but we've come a long way. Isabel Davis’ book “Conceiving History: Trying for Pregnancy Past and Present” examines scientific, folkloric, political and societal connections to conception throughout history. -
Courtesy/Rowman & Littlefield PublishersTrying to understand how what we might call evil exists can be daunting. From genocide to apartheid, organized wickedness can defy reason. Elizabeth Minnich considers the worst we can do and how it can happen in her 2016 book, “The Evil of Banality: On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking.”
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Matt McGowan’s new novel, "Western Swing," takes readers across the western U.S. as Ray, a man in his early 20s, leaves the family farm for a solo vacation. It doesn’t stay solo for long after his car’s engine block cracks, and he finds himself temporarily stuck in a small Wyoming town. -
An section from a newly discovered manuscript from the "True Grit" author is now available for readers in the magazine's April issue. -
Missouri-based Mathew Goldberg returns to northwest Arkansas to launch his debut short story collection "Night Watch." -
Kevin Arnold is considering 25 years of his creative output. His work can be seen in an exhibition at the Local Color Studio Gallery. “Chapter 25 Flipping forward to back: a retrospective look at the work of Kevin Arnold” opened this week, and there will be a reception Friday, March 14. -
Ginny Myers Sain's latest supernatural fiction is set in the Ozarks. Her new book, "When the Bones Sing," centers around a young woman who can hear the bones of the deceased. Myers now lives in Florida but grew up in Oklahoma. She graduated from and worked at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, and she spoke with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams last week. -
In her latest novel, "When the Bones Sing," Ginny Myers Sain invites us to a world of the supernatural and paranormal set in the Ozarks.
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Almost 100 years ago, the nation’s attention was focused on Dayton, Tennessee, as Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan traded legal arguments in the Scope Monkey Trial. The trial is detailed in Ed Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion." -
The phrase “Christian Nationalism” isn’t new, but it certainly seems that it has been used in public discourse more in the last decade. Amanda Tyler is the lead organizer of Christians Against Christian Nationalism and author of the book “How to End Christian Nationalism.” She'll be in Fayetteville this weekend. -
The daily web murder mystery "Murdle" is a worldwide phenomenon. It's a website and an internationally best-selling book series. -
The new book from the University of Arkansas Press explores Asian-American food and identity through recipes, personal essays and illustrations.
