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A pair of unlikely sleuths face yet another murder in Regency England. Born more than a century too early to be formally diagnosed, Jonathan Darcy, the son of Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Bennet Darcy, ...

Our History Virginia Kirkus. In January 1933—the same month the Ford Motor Company laid off 100,000 workers and a record 242 U.S. banks failed—Virginia Kirkus started a business, the Virginia Kirkus ...

A decidedly warts-and-all portrait of the man many consider to be America’s greatest writer. It makes sense that distinguished biographer Chernow (Washington: A Life and Alexander Hamilton) has ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

As an unpublished or self-published author, it can be a relentless struggle to attract a significant amount of attention to your book or manuscript. By purchasing a Kirkus indie review, authors can ...

A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, ...

Percival Everett, Adam Higginbotham, and Kenneth M. Cadow are the winners of this year’s Kirkus Prizes, given annually by Kirkus Reviews to books of exceptional merit.. The winners were announced at a ...

Featuring 287 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this issue: interviews with Maggie Stiefvater, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Meg Medina, and J.D. Netto; and ...

Atwood goes back to Gilead. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), consistently regarded as a masterpiece of 20th-century literature, has gained new attention in recent years with the success of the Hulu series ...

Kirkus Media is looking for experienced book reviewers of English and Spanish-language titles to review for Kirkus Indie, the book review magazine's section dedicated to self-published authors.

McBride follows up his hit novel Deacon King Kong (2020) with another boisterous hymn to community, mercy, and karmic justice.. It's June 1972, and the Pennsylvania State Police have some questions ...