Books

Rare books librarian Miah Clark shows a 5,000-year-old cuneiform cone, a book of hours from about 1415 and an 1896 Kelmscott Press volume at UofA Special Collections for American Archives Month.

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.

Culture vulture April Wallace joins Kyle Kellams to recommend HBO's "Lanterns," the vampire comedy "What We Do in the Shadows" on Hulu and Alex Michaelides' novel "The Fury."

Culture vulture April Wallace recommends an autumn rewatch of "Gilmore Girls," the Netflix crime series "The Gentlemen" and Percival Everett's Pulitzer-winning novel "James."

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.

April Wallace recommends the reality series Suddenly Amish on Hulu, plus Silvia Moreno-Garcia's supernatural novel The Bewitching, in this week's culture vulture conversation.

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.