Literary fiction, reportage, fantasy, crime, books for young readers and much more—the Lounge team looks back on their ...

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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing ...

The president is no longer dominating his party or the country in the way he once did.

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As winter settles in and the year winds down, there’s no better time to curl up with a book that speaks to the complexity and beauty of queer life. This season’s reading list spans ...

Taken together, these books suggest three themes for 2026: climate action is now a power question, inequality is the central ...

Shortlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for fiction, “A Guardian and a Thief” is a reminder that the best dystopian ...

Cartoonist and counterculture icon R. Crumb reflects on his remarkable life and work in a new interview from his home in the South of France.