Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
IndieWire Poll: Top 50 Films of 2014
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Whitechapel

Hymns in Dissonance
- The 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2025: Loudwire
- Favorite Albums of 2025: Steve Erickson Runner-up
Kin
- #18 25 Best Albums of 2021: Revolver
The Valley
- #64 The 66 Best Metal Albums of the 2010s: Loudwire

Trending Lists

25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Top 20 Films of 2014 In Review Online
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll

Trending Works

Essays One Lydia Davis
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Circe Madeline Miller
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Baldwin, Styron, and Me Mélikah Abdelmoumen
7 Walks with Mark Brown Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
You Must Remember This Karina Longworth
KPop Demon Hunters Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield

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