Year-End Lists

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019: Dennis Cooper

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

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
House of Huawei Eva Dou
In the Dark
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
XXX Danny Brown
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
My Adventures with Superman
Flesh David Szalay
Getting Killed Geese
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Antidote Karen Russell
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra

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