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 ...

An examination of New York’s Central Park and its history, set in the context of global climate change. Any history of Central Park necessarily spotlights Frederick Law Olmsted, who (with Calvert Vaux ...

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

The author, an integrative healthcare practitioner, takes readers on a journey through the ins and outs of reiki, framing it as a method of healing and rejuvenation—and not, she clarifies, as a kind ...

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

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

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.

Laura Atkins calls herself a magpie; on nature walks, she looks out for sea glass, rocks, and anything else that catches her fancy. The habit has served her well. She’s created art out of what she’s ...

An English-language version of Earhart, translated from German by David Henry Wilson, was published in the U.S. on May 13 by NorthSouth Books. As Kirkus writes in an admiring review, “Budding makers ...