A successful juvenile by the beloved New Yorker writer portrays a farm episode with an imaginative twist that makes a poignant, humorous story of a pig, a spider and a little girl. Young Fern Arable ...

Witherspoon launched her book club in 2017 with the goal of “sharing stories centered around women to elevate their voices,” and it has since become a phenomenon in the publishing world, almost ...

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

Meg Medina keeps it real with young readers in her latest middle-grade novel, Graciela in the Abyss.

With Katabasis, acclaimed fantasy author R.F. Kuang puts her own hellish spin on dark academia. With Katabasis, acclaimed fantasy author R.F. Kuang puts her own hellish spin on dark academia. Sarah ...

Everyone knows that if you want to be a better author, you need to read. And sure, everyone needs to read, but you can’t ...

B.T. Polcari is a graduate of Rutgers College of Rutgers University, an award-winning mystery author, and a proud father of two wonderful children. He’s a champion of rescue pups (Mauzzy is a rescue), ...

Featuring 287 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this issue: interviews with Maggie Stiefvater, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Meg Medina, and J.D. Netto; and ...

“Can a man who caused the death of his child ever atone enough to be forgiven?”That is the central question raised by Lamb’s novel of every parent’s worst nightmare. That nightmare becomes a reality ...

Three women deal very differently with vampirism in Schwab’s era-spanning follow-up to The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2020). In 16th-century Spain, Maria seduces a wealthy viscount in an attempt ...

Bill Gates has released his annual summer reading list, consisting of five memoirs that the business executive and philanthropist says helped inspire his own. Microsoft co-founder Gates published his ...

Atwood goes back to Gilead. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), consistently regarded as a masterpiece of 20th-century literature, has gained new attention in recent years with the success of the Hulu series ...