Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Struggle Artist
- Music I Enjoyed in 2018: Sasha Frere-Jones
Negative Space (1981–2014)
- 100 Favorite Albums of 2016: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology Willie Dunn
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
The Duke of Burgundy Peter Strickland
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Call Me by Your Name Luca Guadagnino
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Heavy Metal Cameron Winter
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Radu Jude

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