Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Polaris Music Prize: 2026 Award
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Once Upon A Time

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Ten of the Best Albums Released by Queer and Trans Artists in 2021: Abeni Jones: Autostraddle Honorable mention

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The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
2026 Award Polaris Music Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
2026 Award The Mercury Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2017 Ryan Gilbey · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Dean's List 2023 Robert Christgau

Trending Works

Pretty Red Dress Dionne Edwards
Cyan Blue Charlotte Day Wilson
The House Porches
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor Julie Iromuanya
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Mildred Pierce Todd Haynes
Sins of the Leopard James Brookes
Tabu Miguel Gomes
Pigeon Alys Conran
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
K Bernardo Kucinski
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
Letters to Camondo Edmund de Waal
The Matter with Morris David Bergen

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