Year-End Lists

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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When Crack Was King

A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

by Donovan X. Ramsey

When Crack Was King - Donovan X. Ramsey

Lists

The Best Books of 2023: Maris Kreizman: New York: Vulture

Nonfiction 2023: National Book Award
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023: Washington Post
Best Books of 2023: New York Public Library
Best Nonfiction of 2023: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 20 Best TV Shows of 2023 Slant
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo

Trending Works

Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
A Moment in the Sun John Sayles
Is a River Alive? Robert Macfarlane
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Sticker NCT 127
Goal/Tender Meat/Tender Paul Cunningham
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
Vice Principals
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Drive & Cry Emily Nenni
XXX Danny Brown
Top of the Lake Jane Campion and Garth Davis
Alpha Julia Ducournau
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook

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