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Actor Johnny Depp will collaborate with director Ridley Scott on a series of graphic novels inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
The jurors for the prizes evaluated 1,444 books that received a Kirkus star and were published during the award’s eligibility period. The winners receive a trophy created by the London design team of ...
Numerous other candidates appear—along with short fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, and young adult literature—in our special issue dedicated to the best books of the 21st century (so far). The ...
Irving, known for his novels The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire, published The Cider House Rules in 1985. The novel told the story of Homer Wells, a young man growing up in a ...
Though the Civil War is over when this novel opens, the threat of violence and the persistence of bigotry still loom over a Georgia town.
Contemporary romance gets the attention, but some of the best novels being written today are historicals.
The human stories behind news images of Syrian war refugees emerge in a novel both touching and terrifying.
NIGHT CAME WITH MANY STARS by Simon Van Booy ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 8, 2021 This well-crafted and often serendipitous saga recognizes that family cannot be escaped but can be expanded.
A professor of history at Harvard chronicles the historical journey of an embroidered cotton sack, beginning with the enslaved woman who gave it to her 9-year-old daughter in the 1850s.
Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.
CRYING IN H MART A MEMOIR by Michelle Zauner ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 20, 2021 A tender, well-rendered, heart-wrenching account of the way food ties us to those who have passed.
A thoroughgoing study of one of the most important civil-rights cases argued by Thurgood Marshall in dismantling Jim Crow strictures.