A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex ...

Artificial-intelligence-generated “musicians” are now entering the charts at a pace that’s drawing worry from even the most bottom-line-focused label executives. What can everyday listeners do to ...

Doechii’s “Nissan Altima” emerged as one of 2025’s most discussed breakout rap tracks. Featuring stinging lyricism, dramatic ...

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

For almost as long as there have been films, there have been Christmas movies to go with them. But it wasn’t until television came along that watching Christmas movies became a true holiday tradition.

Last week we published our annual list of 100 Notable Books; today, we winnow that list to the 10 Best Books of 2025. And now, we’re ready to discuss them. In this week’s episode, the Book Review ...

You wouldn’t call 2025 an “off” year for horror — more like an odd one. Both A24 and Neon continued to back several scary-movie auteurs (the prolific Osgood Perkins, the brothers Danny and Michael ...

Great cinema has never died, but there’s something particularly heartening about the fact that it survived 2025. Looking back at this turbulent year, rife with the usual industry concerns over the ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Sebastian Mast Supported by The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of ...

In real life, 2025 has been a chaotic year. We've navigated the beginning of a divisive presidential term, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, witnessed a pope from Chicago get elected, a ...

Buckeye is an historical novel set, as its title indicates, in Ohio. Stretching from pre-World War II to the close of the 20th century, the story focuses on two married couples whose lives intersect.

In cultural criticism, every year ends the same way—with a deluge of top 10 lists for every imaginable art form, as though music and literature and film and TV and theater and dance all produce ...