Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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- Poetry 2023: National Book Award
- Best Poetry of 2023: Library Journal
Nightingale
- Best Poetry Books of 2019: Via Negativa
Animal Eye
1. 5 Best Poetry Books of 2012: Publishers Weekly

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Passages Ira Sachs
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
Reservoir 13 Jon McGregor
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
hexed! aya
Angel Down Daniel Kraus

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