Plant Lady,” by the Korean novelist Minyoung Kang, imagines an urban haven for women who need an escape from dangerous men.

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In a sobering new book, Annie Jacobsen considers the potentially civilization-ending impacts of biological war.

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If you read the first chapter of A Voice In The Dark,” you’ll finish the book. Colorado Springs author Barbara Nickless’s ...

When George Pelecanos introduced Derek Strange in 2001’s “Right as Rain,” the private detective was at a pivotal time in his ...

Helen Oyeyemi’s books are getting weirder — and I mean that in the best way. “A New New Me,” her eighth novel, follows Kinga, a 40-year-old Polish woman who, on the Monday we meet her, becomes a Czech ...

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

In "The God Test," Robert Wright considers an evolutionary leap in which human consciousness becomes infused with AI.

Donal Ryan has set his novels chiefly in and around his native Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, filling them with characters whose stories become the background of subsequent books. “Heart, Be at ...

The death of book reviews is not greatly exaggerated, but it is greatly protracted. This time, the bell tolls for book reviews from the Associated Press. If you subscribe to one of the few major ...