Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

The story of any song, not least of all one as popular or as recognisable as Fairytale of New York, is rarely ...

Over a 60-year career, the singer-songwriter and ‘Toy Story’ composer has chronicled America with a sharp eye and unrivalled ...

All of which is to say, Blitz is a World War II boyhood adventure uncharacteristically conventional for the lauded artist.

Any reasonably well-stocked home library of books – such as that at The Budapest Times hideaway – is sure to include a good ...

Wallace, 60, is best known as a judge on the long-running BBC cookery programme but worked formerly as a greengrocer. Born in ...

The director premieres Bird, a harsh and urban chronicle on the verge of a fairy tale about family, women, and... birds.

On the 30th anniversary of the revolutionary memoir, Suleika Jaouad looks back at the book’s influence on her life and ...

It took the author 13 years to write her novel. Four years after it published, it was a Hollywood hit starring James Dean.

In a book penned before Helene, a 13-year-old girl saves people and animals in a historic flood in the North Carolina ...

It has been almost 25 years since the 1990s came to a close. Now, the good news. Since then, many of the movies we loved from ...