Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Village Voice: Top 100 Albums of 2016
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The 12 Best Books of 2023: WBEZ: Nerdette
Our 23 Favorite LGBTQ+ Books of 2023: Them

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The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
Favorite Movies of 2025 Barack Obama
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Train Dreams Clint Bentley
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont
Mania Hamza
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
Nótt eftir nótt Kælan Mikla
Acid Rap Chance The Rapper
mbv My Bloody Valentine
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Hands In The Air! Told Not To Worry
Gangs of Wasseypur Anurag Kashyap
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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