Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Tasha Robinson: The Next Picture Show: Top Ten Films of 2025
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Adam Cohen

Captain's Dinner
- The Best Books of 2025: Boston Globe
Supreme Inequality
- Best Nonfiction of 2020: Powell's Books
Imbeciles
- 20 Best Nonfiction Books of 2016: Kate Tuttle: Boston Globe
- Nonfiction 2016: National Book Award

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top Ten Films of 2025 Tasha Robinson · The Next Picture Show
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Souleymane's Story Boris Lojkine
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
XXX Danny Brown
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
I'm Still Here Walter Salles

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