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.

Kurtz offers readers a deeply personal vision of her unique childhood. Thanks to her World War II veteran father, a Protestant minister, she was raised in Maji, a small village in the mountains of ...

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 ...

An examination of New York’s Central Park and its history, set in the context of global climate change. Any history of Central Park necessarily spotlights Frederick Law Olmsted, who (with Calvert Vaux ...

The typical firsts of school are here: riding the bus, making friends, sliding on the playground slide, counting, sorting shapes, laughing at lunch, painting, singing, reading, running, jumping rope, ...

A kaleidoscopic history-in-vignettes of Memphis, Tennessee.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 ...

A Wampanoag journalist looks at what it means to be Native American. Over the course of U.S.–Native American relations, too few people have remembered that the East Coast once abounded with Indigenous ...