Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Joan Murray

Drafts, Fragments, and Poems
- The Poetry I Was Grateful For in 2018: Dan Chiasson: New Yorker
- 9 Best Books of Poetry in 2018: Meghan O'Rourke: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
XXX Danny Brown
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Antidote Karen Russell
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Audition Katie Kitamura

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