Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Consequence: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Barbarian Days

A Surfing Life

by William Finnegan

Lists

Top 10 Books of 2015: San Francisco Chronicle
10 Best Books of 2015: Publishers Weekly

Trending Lists

2012 Year in Review Aquarium Drunkard
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
10 Best Movies of 2012 Atlantic Wire

Trending Works

Leftovers Le Ren
Sun Cat Power
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
-io Circuit Des Yeux
The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists
Passages Ira Sachs
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
What the Constitution Means to Me Marielle Heller
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
Cometh The Storm High On Fire
Fatigue L'Rain
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams

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