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 ...

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.

Martin, also a prolific author, has always been intrigued by the cartoons strewn throughout the pages of the New Yorker. So when he was presented with the opportunity to work with Bliss, who has been ...

Libby Casey, who runs a design business, is inexplicably drawn to a colonial house for sale. She thinks moving there may be the change she needs, as she’s still in the home where she lived with her ...

The author, who says he can “experience a sense of heaven anytime [he] choose [s]—without needing to change anything in [his] external world” by shifting his thoughts, introduces readers to easy mind ...

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 ...

Friedman blends personal storytelling with therapeutic insight to create a memoir that will serve as a healing companion for highly sensitive persons (HSPs) and those supporting them. Using a mix of ...

The narrative explores parallels between authors Mary Braddon and Virginia Woolf, two fascinating literary figures born decades apart (Braddon in 1835, Woolf in 1882)—both were iconoclasts who were ...