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After four decades, the annual book series is drawing to a close. Our columnist looks at what it all meant.

As Kate DiCamillo’s “Because of Winn-Dixie” celebrates a big milestone, Holly Goldberg Sloan’s “Finding Lost” echoes its themes.

The celebrated author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” may have a cult following on campus and a reputation for formidable literary high jinks. But his novels are also just plain fun.

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Marvel’s White Tiger, frog sorcery, Indigenous tales and more are in “¡Wepa!,” coming to New York Public Library, spotlighting work by or about the island.

“Shadow Ticket” follows a dancing private eye on the hunt for a missing cheese heiress. It gets even wackier from there.

Based on a memoir by Alysia Abbott, the movie chronicles gay liberation and the AIDS crisis from the perspective of a gay man’s daughter.

The Lemonheads frontman’s life was really bleak for a while. He tells the tale in a new memoir, to be followed by his band’s first album of original songs in nearly 20 years.

Why? Curiosity, “general impatience and all-around quirkiness.” Her first book (which proceeds chronologically) is a visual memoir of her life and musical career.