A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted him and stayed with him this year.

With traditional publishing cooling on historicals right now, self-published authors like Richards are filling the breach.

The best reviewed movie of 2025, according to the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, has been revealed.

Several of the films on my best-of-the-year list, including “Last Air in Moscow,” are fundamentally timeless expressions and explorations of solidarity. They take us inside authoritarian crackdowns, ...