We've crowned Ghost's Skeleta in the writer's poll - but which metal albums from 2025 excited you most?

Every year, I try my best to listen to a large chunk of new albums that are released throughout the year. I mostly listen to ...

The first solo album in three years from the New York rapper (and his first release since his twin 2023 stunners, the Kenny Segal collab Maps, which landed on our 2023 year-end list, and Armand Hammer ...

The definition of RPG is fairly free-flowing these days, so you’ll see games with elements of the genre in our other award ...

The best reviewed movie of 2025, according to the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, has been revealed.

Comet class, with events far and wide to attend. Our season started in April and ended in October. We planned 26 events comprising 24 opens and 2 championships.

The bean counters might say otherwise, but 2025 was a good year for movies. Filmmakers working in and out of the studio system managed to make bold, personal, wildly imaginative and singular works.

We look back at the year's most defining moments in music, from the Trump administration's takeover of the Kennedy Center to Kendrick's Super Bowl performance, the Sean Combs trial, the Sinners ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Sebastian Mast Supported by The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Goldstein is a journalist and playwright based in Los Angeles. The Star Princess, the latest addition to Princess Cruises ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...