A new biography from the University of Arkansas Press, "The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford," looks at the life and work of poet Frank Stanford. Written by James McWilliams, the book follows Stanford’s early years in Mississippi and Memphis, his time in Mountain Home and Fayetteville, and his later life in New Orleans.

Natasha Korsakova's career as a concert violinist has taken her around the world, and her work as an author has brought her back to Europe to meet fans of her murder mysteries, her fourth of which is due to hit shelves in 2026.

Dennis Mathew is an educator with nearly two decades of experience as an elementary school speech pathologist. He's also a writer of children's books and a songwriter, but he says he has always prioritized education.

In “Find Your Fight: Make Your Voice Heard for the Causes That Matter Most,” Jay Ruderman, president of the Ruderman Family Foundation, advocates for making the world better. A long-time activist, he emphasizes the need for better representation of people with disabilities in film and television.

In 2017, advocate and journalist Gauri Lankesh was murdered outside of her home near Bangalore, India. Rollo Romig spent more than five years researching her work and her death, resulting in the book, “I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India,” which was a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize.

In his book “The Jazz Men: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America," Larry Tye makes the case that much of the American 20th century is intertwined with the three musical geniuses, including progress made toward Civil Rights.

Amor Towles has delighted readers with his novels "The Rules of Civility," "Lincoln Highway" and "A Gentleman in Moscow." His latest book, "Table for Two," is a collection of short stories. He’ll be at the Fayetteville Public Library on June 5 for a public conversation.

Amor Towles has delighted readers with his novels "The Rules of Civility," "Lincoln Highway" and "A Gentleman in Moscow." His latest book, "Table for Two," is a collection of short stories. He’ll be at the Fayetteville Public Library on Thursday, June 5, for a public conversation.

Emily Feng covers China, Taiwan and beyond for NPR from her Washington, DC base. For years, she was based in China, and her new book, “Let Only Red Flowers Bloom,” is about her time living and reporting in mainland China and the authoritarian rule there.

Scientific 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.