Books

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.

Beth Bacon’s book “Helping Our World Get Well” explains the COVID-19 vaccine to kids and can help parents facilitate conversations about getting vaccinated.

At least four school districts in St. Louis are facing formal attempts to remove at least 21 books from school libraries. Two-thirds of those books are written by authors of color or authors who identify as LGBTQ.

Sarah Fenske interviewed Lisa Napoli before a live audience at the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival.

Charles Marohn's book “Confessions of a Recovering Engineer” explains what engineers get wrong about roads — and how to change that.

Atlantic staff writer Adam Harris discusses his book “The State Must Provide,” which explores the long history of inequality in higher education — and offers provocative remedies for the funding shortfalls that plague universities serving students of color.

In her book "Brainscapes," a Washington University neuroscientist explains how the maps in our brains help us make sense of the world. She discusses it on "St. Louis on the Air."

St. Louis native Marian O'Shea Wernicke discusses her debut novel, "Toward That Which Is Beautiful," which draws on her time as a nun in Peru.

Dr. Debbye Turner Bell — the only Miss Missouri to be crowned Miss America — shares details from her new memoir, "Courageous Faith: A Lifelong Pursuit of Faith Over Fear."

Affton High School graduate Scott Alexander Hess discusses his new novellas "Lighting" and "The Root of Everything" and the craft of writing on "St. Louis on the Air."