A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

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 ...

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

A pair of unlikely sleuths face yet another murder in Regency England. Born more than a century too early to be formally diagnosed, Jonathan Darcy, the son of Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Bennet Darcy, ...

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 ...

His new book, Simon & Schuster says, contains “portraits, still lifes, and landscapes: roller-skating lovers, a suit of armor, a suspension bridge, a karaoke singer, a roll of Scotch tape, a Parisian ...

Linde presents the second installment in her ongoing urban fantasy series starring a daring young thief. Following her 2024 book The Wren in the Holly Library, the author continues the adventures of ...

Helping liberals get out of their own way. Klein, a New York Times columnist, and Thompson, an Atlantic staffer, lean to the left, but they aren’t interrogating the usual suspects.Aware that many ...

A falsely accused Black man goes into hiding in this masterful novella by Wright (1908-1960), finally published in full. Written in 1941 and '42, between Wright’s classics Native Son and Black Boy, ...

I love a great, emotional, high-stakes queer memoir, like Saeed Jones’ How We Fight for Our Lives and Brian Broome’s Punch Me Up to the Gods (both winners of the Kirkus Prize). Coming-out stories are ...

Kirkus announced the jurors for the 2025 Kirkus Prize, awarded annually in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature. The literary prizes, established in 2014, come with $50 ...