Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Film Comment Poll: 20 Best Films of 2014
Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2026
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The Black Presidency

Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

by Michael Eric Dyson

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Nonfiction 2016: Kirkus: Kirkus Prize Finalist

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Succession
Ruminations Conor Oberst
A Haunting in Venice Kenneth Branagh
Yolk in the Fur Wild Pink
The Other Side of Everything Mila Turajlic
Rare Flavours Ram V & Filipe Andrade
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
The End of Drum-Time Hanna Pylväinen
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Barton Hollow The Civil Wars
Dìdi Sean Wang
All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh
Yourself and Yours Hong Sang-soo

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