cover image
LATEST ISSUE OF
Kirkus Reviews
Best-seller Jeannette Walls talks about mining her own history for her new novel, The Silver Star.
Kirkus Star
THE KIRKUS STAR
Awarded to Books of Exceptional Merit

BROWSE BOOK REVIEWS



Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012 (page 3)

Cover art for QUICKER THAN THE EYE
FICTION
Released: Nov. 7, 1996
QUICKER THAN THE EYE
by Ray Bradbury
"So-so material for the most part; fans hoping for another Martian Chronicles or October Country face certain disappointment."
A collection of 21 tales from the Grandfather fantasist—none of which have appeared in book form before, though our galley doesn't tell us where they have appeared before, if they have, or when they were written. Read full book review >
Cover art for GREEN SHADOWS, WHITE WHALE
FICTION
Released: May 28, 1992
GREEN SHADOWS, WHITE WHALE
by Ray Bradbury
"He has never written better."
Bradbury goes mainstream with a hymn to Ireland and alcohol, focusing on writing a screenplay with John Huston for the director's film Moby Dick. Read full book review >
Cover art for A GRAVEYARD FOR LUNATICS
FICTION
Released: July 2, 1990
A GRAVEYARD FOR LUNATICS: ANOTHER TALE OF TWO CITIES
by Ray Bradbury
"A tall crock of kirsch and Classic Coke."
Hyperrhapsodic Hollywood fantasia borne on a soft-rubber mystery plot, or Moby Dick blown up on a trout's spine. Read full book review >
Cover art for ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING
NONFICTION
Released: March 26, 1990
ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING: ESSAYS ON CREATIVITY
by Ray Bradbury
"Nonlovers may find the fare a bit exotic and rich."
Bradbury, all charged up, drunk on life, joyous with writing, puts together nine past essays on writing and creativity and discharges every ounce of zest and gusto in him. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR
FICTION
Released: June 23, 1988
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR
by Ray Bradbury
"Lyrical word-collage pasted around candy people: fantasy that just evaporates—and maybe best suited to a YA audience."
Bradbury's first story sheaf since The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980) finds him more lyrically Bradburyesque than ever, in 22 new fantasies. Read full book review >
Cover art for DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS
FICTION
Released: Oct. 28, 1985
Kirkus Star DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS
by Ray Bradbury
"Scott Joplin); and—on nearly every page—quirky blendings of creepiness and humor, innocence and decadence, nightmare and cartoon."
Though dedicated to the memory of mystery-writers Chandler, Hammett, Cain, and Macdonald, Bradbury's new novel—his first full-length fiction since Something Wicked This Way Comes—isn't really an homage to the hard-boiled detective genre. Read full book review >