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 ...

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Is your Spotify Wrapped a bluff? While digital algorithms track our listening, an analog “book stack” offers a deeper look at our intentions. From Timothy Snyder to Hans Fallada, here is how one ...

Lola Lafon’s book “When You Listen to This Song” is a hit in its native France. Now in English, it explores identity, loss and memory in wholly new ways. By Sadie Stein These novels usher readers into ...

December 30, 2025 • J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a person is dying, and how to reckon with uncomfortable ...