Year-End Lists

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New Statesman: Albums of the Year 2025
The Center for Fiction: 2026 First Novel Prize
Polaris Music Prize: 2026 Award
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The Painful Truth

by Skunk Anansie

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#31 The 45 Best Albums of 2025: The Forty-Five

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Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
2026 Award Polaris Music Prize
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Favorite Metal Albums of 2025 A.A. Dowd
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
Albums of the Year 2025 New Statesman
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
2026 Award The Mercury Prize

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West Carys Davies
Pigeon Alys Conran
Sins of the Leopard James Brookes
Hold It 'Til It Hurts T. Geronimo Johnson
In the Underground Song Zhantao
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain David Midell
The End of Days Jenny Erpenbeck
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
The Matter with Morris David Bergen
Loro Paolo Sorrentino
Dunya Mustafa
The Vanishing Man Laura Cumming
Rule of Two Walls David Gutnik

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