When you sit down to write a story, sometimes the hardest part can be just getting started. After all, the beginning of a tale ...

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 ...

A decidedly warts-and-all portrait of the man many consider to be America’s greatest writer. It makes sense that distinguished biographer Chernow (Washington: A Life and Alexander Hamilton) has ...

Three educators at different points in their careers navigate life and work in a small town in Culbertson’s novel. After an entitled parent accosts her in her prep school’s parking lot (“he shoved me ...

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

Torok presents a beginner’s guide to an alternative energy-healing therapy and its potential health benefits. The author, an integrative healthcare practitioner, takes readers on a journey through the ...

A psychologist and Nobel Prize winner summarizes and synthesizes the recent decades of research on intuition and systematic thinking. The author of several scholarly texts, Kahneman (Emeritus ...

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

All the reasons why a daughter needs a mother. Each spread features an adorable cartoon animal parent-child pair on the recto opposite a rhyming verse: “I’ll always support you in giving your all / in ...

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, ...