Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
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Spent Light

by Lara Pawson

Appears on two lists

Best Fiction of 2024: Goldsmiths Prize
The 20 Best Books of 2024: New Statesman

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2020 Pitchfork
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online

Trending Works

Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Weapons Zach Cregger
Fragments for Venus Alice Diop
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Last Summer Catherine Breillat
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
The Holdovers Alexander Payne

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