Year-End Lists

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lou Reed

Words & Music, May 1965
- 2022 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
25 Best Films of 2018 David Ehrlich
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly

Trending Works

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Interview with the Vampire
A Very English Scandal
Bone Valley
Good One India Donaldson
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
The Furrows Namwali Serpell

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