Kirkus’ Best Books coverage kicks off with the 100 best fiction and 100 best nonfiction books of the year, plus interviews with authors of some of our favorite titles. Kirkus’ Best Books coverage ...

Writing fan fiction is a lot less taboo than it used to be.  Setting aside teenagers who write fan fiction for their ...

Journalist and author Beth Macy is running for a seat in the U.S. Congress from Virginia as a Democrat, the Roanoke Times reports.

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

Author Michael Wolff corresponded with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and advised him about how to deal with then–presidential candidate Donald Trump, the New York Times ...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has harsh words for Gov. Josh Shapiro in his new memoir, Axios reports. Fetterman’s Unfettered, co-written with Buzz Bissinger, was published Tuesday by Crown. The book ...

David Szalay has won the Booker Prize, the prestigious British prize given annually to “the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland,” for his novel Flesh.

In his new book, prosecutor Thien Ho revisits the chilling case of a serial killer who was at large for decades.

A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award chronicles a dark period when the Ku Klux Klan was ascendant.

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

McBride follows up his hit novel Deacon King Kong (2020) with another boisterous hymn to community, mercy, and karmic justice.