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Featuring 325 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction and children's & teen; also in this issue: Q&A with Stephen May on 'Life! Death! Prizes!'; Kirkus' Children's & Teen Editor Vicky Smith on 'The Other Side of the YA Boom'; Travis Thrasher: The Prolific Iconoclast on 'How I Did It'; children's board book round-up; and more
Special issue: 100 best indie books & 50 best interactive e-books of 2012; also in this issue: Q&A with Leland Myrick on 'The Ten'; the top 25 indie books of 2012; the top 10 interactive e-books of 2012; and more
Featuring 267 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction and children's & teen; Also in this issue: Black History Month picture books; Jon Ronson gets 'Lost at Sea'; and more
Special issue: the 100 best nonfiction & teen books of 2012; Also in this issue: the top 25 nonfiction books of 2012; the top 25 teen books of 2012; John Green on the "intractable injustice of the human condition"; Cheryl Strayed: Kirkus Q&A on her 'Wild' year; and more
Featuring 306 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction and children's and teen; also in this issue: British novelist Howard Jacobson on being the Jewish Jane Austen; Q&A with Yael Kohen on We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy; Olivier Tallec discussing Waterloo & Trafalgar; in the children's and teen section: 2012 pop-up book round-up; and more
Special issue: 100 best fiction & children's books; also in this issue: the top 25 fiction books of 2012; the top 25 children's books of 2012; utopias, dystopias and 'Arcadia'; a conversation with Lauren Groff; Gillian Flynn: the best-selling crime writer on 'Gone Girl', toxic marriages and film adaptations; and more
Featuring 243 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction and children's and teen; also in this issue: Q&A with Victoria Bassetti on Electoral Dysfuction; Q&A with Marissa Moss on Lost in Paris; Jami Attenberg: Midwestern Jews, Obesity and Happy Endings; and more
Featuring 266 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction and children's and teen; also in this issue: A Cornucopia of Surprises: a conversation with graphic artist Chris Ware; Gina Keating on the epic battle for America's eyeballs; Judith Viorst is NOT having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day; and more
Featuring 277 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction and children's and teen; also in this issue: wintertime picture-book roundup; Q&A with Meggan Abbott on Dare Me; former Cosmo editor and best-selling author Kate White on 'how I did it'; and more
Featuring 440 industry-first reviews in fiction, nonfiction and children's & teen; Also in this issue: Christopher Hitchens faces mortality; Phiilp Nel: A look into the lives of children's literature visionaries; and more
Featuring 433 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction and Children's & Teen; Molly Ringwald Exclusive Q&A: The standout '80s star talks about her new book, When It Happens to You; and more
T. Geronimo Johnson delivers a rich, passionate novel set against the backdrop of war; Historian Jon Meacham returns with an outstanding biography of Thomas Jefferson; Linda Tarrant-Reid delves into the archives to find little-known stories of African-American history and compiles them in a gorgeous volume; and more
David R. Gillham delivers a vividly cinematic novel that's impossible to put down; Jonathan Kozol returns with another cleareyed, compassionate and hopeful book; One young man-to-be receives some spectacularly unorthodox preparation for his bar mitzvah in Michael Rubens' jubilant debut for kids; and more
M.L. Stedman presents a polished, clever debut novel with a cliffhanger ending; A posthumous collection from Harvey Pekar reflects the seminal graphic memoirist at his edgy best; Leda Schubert and Gérard DuBois paint a scintillating picture-book portrait of the world's foremost mime; and more
Two women investigators cross paths in Christopher Brookmyre's offbeat tale of ruthless mobsters in Glasgow; Bob Spitz presents an engrossing biography of the iconic Julia Child; Louise Erdrich turns her focus to Omakayas' children in the fourth volume of her Birchbark House series; and more
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