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

Independent bookstores are pillars of their local communities—some bookstores are also coffee shops or wine bars, some of ...

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.

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 ...

Leslie Epstein, the novelist, essayist, and longtime writing professor, has died at 87, the New York Times reports. Epstein, a Los Angeles native, was the son of Philip G. Epstein, the screenwriter ...

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 ...

What beats sinking into a good book in an easy chair by the fire, feet up and a dozy cat on your lap? Not much, except maybe languidly dipping into a frothy paperback poolside, piña colada at the ...

A debut author blends autobiography and ethnography in this exploration of Sierra Leone in the 1980s. The recent history of Sierra Leone is one often associated with violence, disease, and tragedy.

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 ...

Canadian author Michael Crummey has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, given annually to “a single work of international fiction, whether originally written in English or translated into it,” for his ...

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 ...