GH picks the best kids books of 2025, including board books, picture books, graphic novels, and more nominated by librarians and tested with children.

Banished to the orchestra’s back row, the tuba is rarely highlighted on its own. Playing one is an exercise in breath control ...

In “Motherland,” the journalist Julia Ioffe charts the Russian campaign to emancipate women — and the country’s failure to ...

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

The prolific novelist’s correspondence, collected for the first time, trace a life of literary brilliance, turbulent loves ...

A character's father killed himself when the character was 4 years old; she was there but didn't witness anything directly. Memories of the aftermath include lots of blood and a missing face, but ...

The United States is in a speech war. Normally, human beings fight over money or land or love, but that is not what is happening today. Today, people are fighting over words. People’s lives are being ...

Long novels demand respect. Entering a bookstore and picking up a 600-page literary novel, many readers will make an instinctive calculation: This must be serious. No author would spill so much ink ...

This post was updated Sept. 24 at 9:39 p.m. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner’s biography of Lin-Manuel Miranda is an absolute win for “Hamilton” enthusiasts, artists and those curious about education. Miranda’s ...

VICTORY '45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders. By James Holland and Al Murray. Atlantic Monthly Press. 288 pages. $28. Most wars begin with a unilateral act. Americans fired “the shot heard ...

Former Beacon Press director Helene Atwan and a group of other industry members have formed Viva la Book Review, a new nonprofit organization which hopes to match book reviews—and reviewers—with local ...

When you pick up a Vermont shepherd’s memoir, you might expect it to be everything we associate today with the word pastoral — leisurely and restorative, like wandering through a meadow full of ...