The Whiting Awards, which come with cash prizes of $50,000 for each winner, were established in 1985. Previous winners include Jorie Graham, David Foster Wallace, Li-Young Lee, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, ...

It can be funny to look at science fiction writing of the past and see what people thought the twenty-first century would be ...

Kirkus launched its new Indie Awards today, with independent authors invited to submit their work for the prizes created to “celebrate the excellence, breadth, and depth of inde ...

INDEPENDENT RECOGNITION. About the Kirkus Indie Awards. Anyone can publish a book. Being recognized is what sets exceptional authors apart. Kirkus Indie Awards celebrate the excel ...

Renèe is an Indie nonfiction reviewer for Kirkus and president of Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Literary Management. Previously, she spent five years with the CW Network as a book scout and story analyst ...

The Canadian author and illustrator Jon Klassen has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, one of the most prestigious prizes in children’s literature. Klassen is best known fo ...

A new Apple TV series, starring Elle Fanning, ably adapts Rufi Thorpe’s offbeat, Kirkus-starred novel of single motherhood.

More than 100 national advocacy organizations, publishers, booksellers, and other groups, including Kirkus, have signed a statement opposing H.R. 7661, a U.S. House bill that threatens to withhold ...

Political commentator Tucker Carlson is launching a book imprint with Skyhorse Publishing, the Wall Street Journal reports. Skyhorse, the independent press known for publishing bo ...

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

I’m a physician and researcher. I’ve been on the faculty at Tufts University since 1992 and worked in biotech and pharmaceuticals since 2002. I was always an avid fiction reader, and I knew I wanted ...

Please tell us a little about yourself and Ziva the Great. I’m a Texas-based children’s author, and I care a lot about stories. Maybe too much sometimes. I believe children deserve books that feel ...