Year-End Lists

Ben Travers: The Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by IndieWire

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Succession
2. Dead Ringers
3. The Curse
4. The Bear
5. The Last of Us
6. Reservation Dogs
7. The Other Two
8. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
9. Barry
10. I'm a Virgo

And 10 More, For Good Measure

• Beef
• Dave
• Full Circle
• Mrs. Davis
• Perry Mason
• The Righteous Gemstones
• Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
• Somebody Somewhere
• Starstruck
• What We Do in the Shadows

God Is In The TV: Albums of the Year for 2023

1. Black Rainbows
   Corinne Bailey Rae
2. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
3. Chaos For The Fly
   Grian Chatten
4. The Ballad of Darren
   Blur
5. This Is Why
   Paramore
6. Blómi
   Susanne Sundfør
7. the record
   boygenius
8. Silver
   Say She She
9. Blondshell
   Blondshell
10. Cacti
    Billy Nomates
11. The Last Rotation Of Earth
    BC Camplight
12. I Don't Know
    bdrmm
13. False Lankum
    Lankum
14. The Price of Progress
    The Hold Steady
15. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
16. Norm
    Andy Shauf
17. Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! and the Possibilities of Modern Shopping
    Mozart Estate
18. 3D Country
    Geese
19. A Life Diagrammatic
    JOHN
20. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
21. Tracey Denim
    Bar Italia
22. No Fixed Point In Space
    Modern Nature
23. Acts of Light
    Hilary Woods
24. Star Eaters Delight
    Lael Neale
25. Floodhead
    Tape Runs Out
26. Bless This Mess
    U.S. Girls
27. Race the Night
    Ash
28. Anxiety Replacement Therapy
    The Lottery Winners
29. Galargan
    The Gentle Good
30. All Of This Is Chance
    Lisa O'Neill
31. DK.01
    Das Koolies
32. Deep Is The Way
    Gena Rose Bruce
33. Angel Numbers
    Hamish Hawk
34. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
35. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
36. Mushroom Cloud
    A.S. Fanning
37. everything is alive
    Slowdive
38. Dreamer
    Nabihah Iqbal
39. Gigi's Recovery
    The Murder Capital
40. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
41. Body Building
    Tom Rasmussen
42. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
43. All Gas No Brakes
    Heavy Lungs
44. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
45. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
46. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
47. Exit Light
    Raveloe
48. SplottWorld
    Mace the Great
49. Lost in a Rush of Emptiness
    Bleach Lab
50. The Wreckage
    Sweet Baboo
51. Good Living Is Coming For You
    Sweeping Promises
52. Yard
    Slow Pulp
53. Lamb
    King Nun
54. Music For Film: Tramps!
    Memorials
54. Music for Film: Tramps!, Pt. 2
    Memorials
54. Music For Film: Women Against the Bomb
    Memorials
55. Boombap for Boomers
    Lewca
56. Giant Elk
    Me Rex
57. ROACH
    Miya Folick
58. Galore
    The St.Pierre Snake Invasion
59. Flowers Telegraphed to All Parts of the World
    The Garment District
60. The Noble Art Of Self Destruction
    Holding Absence
61. Undo The Blue
    Iraina Mancini
62. Ozarker
    Israel Nash
63. Balance
    Lucy Spraggan
64. RPG
    Me Lost Me
65. Windrush Baby
    Aleighcia Scott
66. Nails
    Benefits
67. Eternal Life Now
    Bad Pelicans
68. Expired Candy
    Body Type
69. Crazymad, for Me
    CMAT
70. Meursault
    Meursault
71. Last Chance to Learn the Twist
    Graham Parker & the Goldtops
72. Artefacts (Reimaginings From The Original Psychedelic Era)
    The KVB
73. Metamorphosis
    Bethan Lloyd
74. Cousin
    Wilco
75. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
76. Blouse Club
    Problem Patterns
77. The Loveliest Time
    Carly Rae Jepsen
78. Good Lies
    Overmono
79. Sick Boi
    Ren
80. Lahai
    Sampha
81. Stereo Mind Game
    Daughter
82. The Feminine Divine
    Dexys
83. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
84. Exotico
    Temples
85. How to Love
    Withered Hand
86. Raven
    Kelela
87. Off The Grid
    Onipa
88. The Dreamless Sleep Of The 1990s
    Broken Records
89. et cetera, etc
    dust
90. Rapture
    Emily Breeze
91. Zuma 85
    Allah-Lahs
92. Plus Ultra
    Chappaqua Wrestling
93. Thanks For Reaching Out
    Jim Bob
94. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
95. A Living Commodity
    Egyptian Blue
96. Otherworld
    Celestial North
97. Bunny
    Willie J Healey
98. Lemon Lights
    Seablite
99. Air in the Lungs
    Air in the Lungs
100. Summer of No Light
     The Natvral

Lili Loofbourow: Best Television Shows of 2023, as published by The Washington Post

1. Mrs. Davis
2. Beef
3. Succession
4. Reservation Dogs
5. The Bear
6. Somebody Somewhere
7. Jury Duty
8. Fellow Travelers
9. I'm a Virgo
10. Party Down

Foreign Affairs: The Best of Books 2023

Editors' Picks

• Against the World

  Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
  Tara Zahra
• Judgment at Tokyo

  World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
  Gary J. Bass
• The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
  Martin Wolf

Political and Legal

• Human Rights for Pragmatists

  Social Power in Modern Times
  Jack Snyder
• Geopolitics and Democracy

  The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture
  Peter Trubowitz & Brian Burgoon
• The Project-State and Its Rivals

  A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
  Charles S. Maier

• The Economic Government of the World

  1933-2023
  Martin Daunton
• The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

  The History of American Business Enterprise
  Richard N. Langlois
• Chip War

  The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
  Chris Miller

Military and Scientific and Technological

• Armada

  The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588
  Colin Martin & Geoffrey Parker
• Spies

  The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
  Calder Walton
• Road to Surrender

  Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
  Evan Thomas

The United States

• King

  A Life
  Jonathan Eig
• Dying by the Sword

  The Militarization of US Foreign Policy
  Monica Duffy Toft and Sidita Kushi
• Pandemic Politics

  The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID
  Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, Thomas B. Pepinsky

Western Europe

• Democracy Erodes from the Top

  Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe
  Larry M. Bartels
• Keeping friends closer

  Why the EU should address new geoeconomic realities and get its neighbours back in the fold
  various authors
• Tainted Democracy

  Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary
  Zsuzsanna Szelényi

Western Hemisphere

• The Rebel Scribe

  Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin America
  Christopher Neal
• Cooperating with the Colossus

  A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America
  Rebecca Herman
• Solito

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

• On the Edge

  Life along the Russia-China Border
  Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey
• German Blood, Slavic Soil

  How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad
  Nicole Eaton
• Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples

  Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia
  Adrienne Edgar

Middle East

• A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures
  Shahzad Bashir
• Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East

  Deception, Disinformation and Social Media
  Marc Owen Jones
• Locked Out of Development

  Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism
  Steffen Hertog

Asia and Pacific

• Dictatorship and Information

  Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China
  Martin K. Dimitrov
• How Asia Found Herself

  A Story of Intercultural Understanding
  Nile Green
• The Rise and Fall of the East

  How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and why They Might Lead to Its Decline
  Yasheng Huang

Africa

• The Scarce State

  Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland
  Noah L. Nathan
• History of South Africa

  From 1902 to the Present
  Thula Simpson
• The Lumumba Plot

  The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
  Stuart A. Reid

Dazed: The 20 Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021]

1. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
2. Preacher's Daughter
   Ethel Cain
3. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
   Kendrick Lamar
4. Motomami
   Rosalía
5. Crash
   Charli XCX
6. God Save the Animals
   Alex G
7. I Love You Jennifer B
   Jockstrap
8. Cave World
   Viagra Boys
9. Traumazine
   Megan Thee Stallion
10. Crest
    Bladee and Ecco2K
11. Desquamation (Fire, Burn. Nobody)
    Rainy Miller
12. Palaces of Pity
    Malibu
13. Hideous Bastard
    Oliver Sim
14. Pripyat
    Marina Herlop
15. Glitch Princess
    yeule
16. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
17. Icons
    Two Shell
18. Caprisongs
    FKA twigs
19. Back 2 Life
    Thaiboy Digital
20. This Is What I Mean
    Stormzy

Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2023, a survey of nearly 300 music critics

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. the record
   boygenius
2. Guts
   Olivia Rodrigo
3. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
4. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
5. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
6. SOS
   SZA
7. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
8. Maps
   Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
9. Raven
   Kelela
10. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
11. Jaguar II
    Victoria Monét
12. The Window
    Ratboys
13. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
14. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
15. Sundial
    Noname
16. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
17. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
18. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
19. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
20. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
21. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
22. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
23. Zach Bryan
    Zach Bryan
24. Blondshell
    Blondshell
25. This Is Why
    Paramore
26. Let's Start Here
    Lil Yachty
27. Cartwheel
    Hotline TNT
28. Scarlet
    Doja Cat
29. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
30. Burning Desire
    Mike
31. New Blue Sun
    André 3000
32. Lucky for You
    Bully
33. Life Under the Gun
    Militarie Gun
34. Lahai
    Sampha
35. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
36. Heaven Is a Junkyard
    Youth Lagoon
37. Ganger
    Veeze
38. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
    Jaimie Branch
39. Erotic Probiotic 2
    Nourished By Time
40. After the Magic
    Parannoul
41. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
42. Get Up
    NewJeans
43. Quaranta
    Danny Brown
44. Cousin
    Wilco
45. Something to Give Each Other
    Troye Sivan
46. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
47. The Whaler
    Home Is Where
48. Unreal Unearth
    Hozier
49. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
    Chappell Roan
50. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray

Bob Boilen: Favorite Albums 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2011]

1. the record
   boygenius
2. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
3. All Of This Is Chance
   Lisa O'Neill
4. in​||FLUX
   Anna B Savage
5. Sugar The Bruise
   Hand Habits
6. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
7. ROACH
   Miya Folick
8. The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
   Sparks
9. Haunted Mountain
   Buck Meek
10. Ghosts
    Hania Rani
11. Love in Exile
    Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily
12. Dark Corners and Alchemy
    mehro
13. All of This Will End
    Indigo De Souza
14. Folkocracy
    Rufus Wainwright
15. Eye On The Bat
    Palehound
16. Cousin
    Wilco
17. Diamonds
    Luluc
18. Come Back To Me
    Peter One
19. The Art of Forgetting
    Caroline Rose
20. Newfound Oxygen
    Steady Holiday
21. Secret Life
    Fred Again and Brian Eno
22. The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored
    Hayden Pedigo
23. Romantic Piano
    Gia Margaret
24. Honey
    Samia
25. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
26. I/O
    Peter Gabriel
27. Goodnight Summerland
    Helena Deland
28. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
29. Everything Is Alive
    Darlingside
30. A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night
    Katie Von Schleicher

Nina Metz: Best TV of 2023, as posted by The Chicago Tribune in alphabetical order

[see also 2022]

• Annika
• The Bear
• The Diplomat
• Drops of God
• Only Murders in the Building
• Poker Face
• The Night Agent
• Schmigadoon!
• Swagger
• Young Love

Michael Phillips: The Top 10 Best Movies of 2023, as posted by The Chicago Tribune

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Past Lives
   Celine Song
2. The Boy
   Yahav Winner
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
4. Barbie
   Greta Gerwig
5. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
   Kelly Fremon Craig
6. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
7. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
8. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
   Wes Anderson
8. The Rat Catcher
   Wes Anderson
8. The Swan
   Wes Anderson
8. Poison
   Wes Anderson
9. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
10. May December
    Todd Haynes

Top 11-20, in alphabetical order

• All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  Raven Jackson
• Fair Play
  Chloe Domont
• Four Daughters
  Kaouther Ben Hania
• I'm a Virgo
  Boots Riley
• In the Rearview
  Maciek Hamela
• Poor Things
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• The Royal Hotel
  Kitty Green
• Showing Up
  Kelly Reichardt
• A Thousand and One
  A.V. Rockwell
• The Unknown Country
  Morrisa Maltz

Jennifer Lucy Allan: The Best Of 2023, as published by The Quietus where she also has a list of reissues, under "AOB" (any other business)

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

• EP/64-63
  EP/64
• Tête-à-tête
  Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood
• Proofs & Refutations
  John Fahey
• Choose Mortality
  Flesh & The Dream
• Tamiditine
  Moussa Tchingou
• Woodwind Multiples
  Mary Jane Leach
• Corner Dancer
  Lucy Railton
• Winter Songs, Wedding Songs
  Mykolaiv Singers
• F(r)icciones
  A.Maiah
• Hot Pot Totto
  WaqWaq Kingdom

This list contributes to:

• Quietus: Albums of the Year 2023