Witherspoon launched her book club in 2017 with the goal of “sharing stories centered around women to elevate their voices,” and it has since become a phenomenon in the publishing world, almost ...

With Katabasis, acclaimed fantasy author R.F. Kuang puts her own hellish spin on dark academia. With Katabasis, acclaimed fantasy author R.F. Kuang puts her own hellish spin on dark academia. Sarah ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

June 18: The Buccaneers (Season 2 premiere, Apple TV+) This streaming series, which premiered two years ago, is based on the novel by Edith Wharton, which was unfinished upon her death in 1937 but ...

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 ...

Seven former National Ambassadors for Young People’s Literature have condemned President Donald Trump’s firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Hayden, the first woman and first Black person to ...

Heart Lamp, written by Banu Mushtaq and translated by Deepa Bhasthi, is the first story collection to win the International Booker Prize, given annually to a work of fiction translated into English ...