Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Dublin Literary Award: 2025
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1. The Best Albums of 2021: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
2. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: NME
Empress
1. 70 Best Albums of 2018: PopMatters
- Favourite Albums of 2018: gal-dem
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- Best Albums of 2016: gal-dem

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Nocturama Bertrand Bonello
Holy Motors Leos Carax
XXX Danny Brown
The BPM Sudan Archives
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Magic, Alive! McKinley Dixon
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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