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Angela Staehling’s new book was inspired by family cats Theo and Rocco.

Attorney Joel Schwartz’s work defending Russell Faria led to “Bone Deep,” a new book co-authored by Charles Bosworth Jr.

Nineteenth-century Americans collected George Washington’s hair — a way of physicalizing their memory of the country’s first president, writes Keith Beutler.

Washington University law professor Neil Richards is a leading expert on privacy.

Betty Frizzell is the former police chief of Winfield, Missouri. Her memoir, “If You Can’t Quit Cryin’, You Can’t Come Here No More," explores her family's history of poverty, crime and mental illness.

Rachel Greenwald Smith’s book of essays “On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal” may leave you deeply discomfited. It may also elucidate everything that’s wrong with politics and art in 2022.

St. Louis-based author Margaret Hermes finally finished the novel she started 39 years ago.

St. Louis on the Air's list of the best books featured on the show in 2021.

Mark Kruger discusses "The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger's new book explores how county and municipal courts exploit people, creating a cycle that dooms poor people to mountains of debt and frequent jail stays.