Year-End Lists

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The Best Books of 2021: Hillary Kelly: New York: Vulture
The 20 Best Books of 2021: Atlantic
Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 110 Best Albums of the 2010s Albumism
The 50 Best Films of the Decade (2010-2019) Far Out
The 40 Best Films of the 2010s Independent
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Paste
The Best Movies of the 2010s Esquire
Top 25 Films of the 2010s Matt Goldberg · Collider
Top 10 Movies of the 2010s Sean Fennessey · The Ringer · The Big Picture
50 Best Albums of the Decade Jim Harrington · Mercury News
Top 10 Movies of the 2010s Amanda Dobbins · The Ringer · The Big Picture
The Twenty-Seven Best Movies of the 2010s Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
Top 10 Movies of the 2010s Chris Ryan · The Ringer · The Big Picture
25 Best Albums of the 2010s Revolver

Trending Works

All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Impersonator Majical Cloudz
Be the Cowboy Mitski
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Moneyball Bennett Miller
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Presence Steven Soderbergh
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Rough and Rowdy Ways Bob Dylan

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