Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is Culpability by Bruce Holsinger.

With a scope never seen before or since, the Manhattan Project—to develop and build the first nuclear weapons—was a major scientific and industrial undertaking. This is the story of the people who ...

Bob lives an uneventful snail life until one evening, after a series of sounds—a scream, three stomps, a crack, a drip, and a “POOF!”—he finds himself utterly changed. Bob is now a vampire! He’s also ...

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

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

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.

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.

E. Lockhart’s Kirkus-starred YA bestseller We Were Liars (2014) initially seems like a straightforward tale of poor little rich teens, but near the end it reveals itself as a more ambitious work—if, ...

Gould (Can’t Buy Me Love, 2007) begins his biography of art-rock legends Talking Heads with an account of the band’s first show at legendary New York club CBGB, writing that the performance didn’t ...