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Banned book tables are a frequent sight at many bookstores. But are they helping the authors who need it most?

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.

Need a little diversion? Our crime columnist has plenty of books to recommend.

A landmark biography of Ella Fitzgerald, memoirs from David Mamet and Liz Cheney, a new historical novel from Ariel Lawhon and more.

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