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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.

“It’s fun doing something that’s a bit terrifying sometimes,” says the “Sandman” writer, who will reprise his beloved reading of “A Christmas Carol” at Town Hall.

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

The act of being inspired by others is akin to collecting pebbles of experience, letting them escape into flowing consciousness and resurfacing them again in one’s writing.

A writer and artist finds a path out of pain in the stacks of a library.

He opened the door for future generations of poets of color to use their own voices.

A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.

A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.

Three new collections by Jeanette Winterson, Paul Yoon and Louise Kennedy.