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Ten Best Books of 2025

  I tend to see a gap between my own life and the life of the Washington Post (or the NYTimes). Here is my personal list of the literary highlights from 2025. *STUPID TV, BE MORE FUNNY. "The Simpsons" is widely seen as the single greatest show in the history of TV, and that's mostly because of its astounding debut (years one through ten). I see my family in this show--but I also see my neighbor, my former colleague, my husband's nemesis, my Internet fixation, my mentor. How can one show--just one show--have space for Ned Flanders, Edna Krabappel, Mayor Quimby, Comic Book Guy, and Bleeding Gums Murphy? Not to mention Fred (of the Quimby dynasty), Grampa Simpson, Moe, Krusty, Rev. Lovejoy, Helen Lovejoy...The list goes on and on. No TV is more important to me than "Scenes From the Class Struggle in Springfield," "Bart vs. Thanksgiving," "Radio Bart." "Stupid TV" is the intelligent, well-researched, impassioned "fan letter...