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 ...

A talented young witch named Lydia Polk finds herself in a race against time to track down the Grimorium Bellum, a book of unspeakable magical power, before it falls into Nazi hands at the height of ...

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

Decades ago, the first thing you’d do in a new job was print out fresh business cards. They’d have your name, your ...

Sartre said, “Hell is other people.” In R.F. Kuang’s highly anticipated new novel, Katabasis (Harper Voyager, Aug. 26), Hell is higher education. A mishap with a pentagram has splattered acclaimed ...

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

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 ...

Don Winslow was done with writing, but writing wasn’t done with him. The crime novelist, who announced he was retiring from the fiction world in 2022, will publish a new collection of short novels ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

Miller and Chang present a look at chefs of Asian descent who cooked for presidents, published by the nonprofit White House Historical Association. The authors, who were once classmates at Stanford ...

Featuring 302 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this special Science Fiction & Fantasy Issue: interviews with R.F. Kuang, Melissa Febos, Adrianna Cuevas, ...