From comfort reads to climate fiction, USA TODAY shares the books that defined 2025 and why these stories resonated.

Though the books on this year’s list are a varied group, with wildly different approaches to plot, tone and style, they’re ...

The best movies of 2025 include "Sinners," "Hedda," "One Battle After Another," "Eddington" and "The Naked Gun," according to our critic Amy Nicholson.

It’s easy to forget quite how mean-spirited Joe Dante’s wacky 80s monster movie actually is; but this strange, anarchic film ...

For years, ordinary Filipinos fought for justice. Former President Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest proves that resistance matters.

The year in publishing saw such notable releases as the latest “Hunger Games” novel and the first book in years from Thomas ...

Listen: Amanda Petrusich thinks that Bon Iver’s “SABLE, fABLE” is one of the best albums of 2025. Today’s Crossword Puzzle: ...

Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the ...

Folks, if you can, get out a pen and paper because we're about to talk about some of our favorite books of the year, and you might want to jot a few of these titles down. With us to talk about NPR's ...

Andrew Limbong is a reporter for NPR's Arts Desk, where he does pieces on anything remotely related to arts or culture, from streamers looking for mental health on Twitch to Britney Spears' fight over ...