Here are a few of the books that stuck with us and became personal favorites this year. Perhaps they will stick with you, too ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, ...

Culture writer Cat Zhang says the New York Review of Books reissue of Jack the Modernist would make the perfect gift. The novel is set in the early ’80s and is about the slow dissolution of a love ...

Smithsonian magazine's picks for the best books about travel of 2025 include Adventures in the Louvre, On the Hippie Trail ...

As I’m writing this piece, I have read 51 novels that were released in 2025. I chose what to read either based on the description written by the publisher, or because I recognized the author’s name ...

Though the books on this year’s list are a varied group, with wildly different approaches to plot, tone and style, they’re ...