Year-End Lists

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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John Ashbery

Parallel Movement of the Hands
- The Best Poetry of 2021: Boston Globe
John Ashbery
Commotion of the Birds
- 23 Favorite Poetry Books of 2016: Dennis Cooper
Breezeway
- 23 Favorite Poetry Books of 2015: Dennis Cooper
- 12 Favorite Poetry Books of 2015: Dan Chiasson: New Yorker
Quick Question
1. Top 40 Poetry Books of 2012: Coldfront
- 8 Best Poetry Books of 2012: Michael Andor Brodeur: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The Sunshine Place
Idlewild Idlewild
Clean Slate
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Sly Thom Zimny
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas

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