NYT Books

Corinna Luyken, Philip Stead and Isabelle Arsenault capture the unique brightness that comes after the dark.

With the publication of a new book about their influential teen drama, which debuted in 2003, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage have learned to love “The O.C.” again.

Films, TV shows, albums, books, art and A.I.-generated SpongeBob performances that reporters, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn’t stop thinking about this year.

A Laurie Colwin classic and a modern chef’s posthumous memoir.

This captivating adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s novel, a collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company, follows a man and his ailing mother during a civil war in South Africa.

Justice O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, was a swing vote on polarizing issues before a closely divided court. These books offer insight into her life, career and legacy.

“Going Infinite” may have missed the big takeaway, but it offers at least one undeniable pleasure: deep access.

We asked 14 psychologists, counselors and therapists for the titles they recommend to couples.

L.M. Montgomery’s oft-forgotten novel, which turns 100 this year, is more timely than ever.

Though a tour de force for its actors, an Off Broadway adaptation of Philip Roth’s willfully obscene 1995 novel is too faithful to its source.