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Whatever became of Don Sample?

Consider this your personal year-end reading list, one that we hope provides hours of pleasure.

The year's best culinary titles include a food history of the United States, a guide to being an excellent dinner-party guest, and a collection of recipes that people decided to take to their graves.

The thirty-year-old star photographer became famous for his reference-rich images of Black beauty, but his strongest work suggests a tender eye for imperfection.

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

In Josh Safdie's hectic new film, Timothée Chalamet plays a gifted Ping-Pong player who's also a born performer.

To feel mentally alive, you have to do more than defeat distraction.

Also: Graciela Iturbide's tranquil photographs of Mexico, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in "Song Sung Blue," the coke-rap of Clipse, and more.

Some patients don't trust us. Others say they don't need us. It's time for us to think of ourselves not as the high priests of health care but as what we have always been: healers.

A list of songs I loved in 2025.