NPR's Scott Detrow and Daniel Burke discuss "American Pope," their biography of Pope Leo XIV, from his decades in Peru to how Pope Francis prepared him to lead the Catholic Church.

UofA education reform researchers Harry Patrinos and Kristen Scott discuss their new book, the LEARNS Act, school choice, early literacy and what it will take for Arkansas students to rebound.

Author Maria van Lieshout explains how her mother's memory of a blackbird singing during Amsterdam's Hunger Winter shaped the narrator of "Song of a Blackbird." She visits the UofA Oct. 1.

Maria van Lieshout discusses Song of a Blackbird, her graphic novel about Dutch artists who forged treasury bills to fund the resistance. She visits the UofA on Oct. 1.

Ahead of a free talk at the Fayetteville Public Library, the Pulitzer-winning author of James discusses why he writes chronologically, how much of his own work he forgets, empathy in fiction.

Cherokee author Andrea L. Rogers talks with Kyle Kellams about "Death in the Tallgrass," her novel set in 1968 Oklahoma, ahead of a Tuesday event at Underbrush Books in downtown Rogers.

In her new book "Your Turn," the NPR health correspondent maps out what comes after parenting and the paycheck. She talks about optimism, reinvention and finding purpose after 50.

The Rev. Dr. Lora Walsh, a UofA English professor, discusses her book "Lady Church in the Christian Imagination" ahead of two talks at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville.

Architects Marlon Blackwell and principals from Modus Studio join Peter MacKeith on Ozarks at Large to examine how regional design shapes everyday spaces.

Margaret "Peggy" Konert talks with Kyle Kellams about "The Holy Ghost and a Shine of Coal," her novel about a 9-year-old girl in Paris, Arkansas, as the coal industry fades after World War II.