[Editor’s note: To read our other selections for Best of 2025, see here] Media comes at us so fast nowadays, and along with the fragmentation of culture that has accompanied the increasing pace of society, it become much too easy to miss great works, be they film, television, or books. Our senior editors offer a […]

[Editor’s note: To read our other selections for Best of 2025, see here] Beyond the obvious – Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and a handful of others – there are fewer big stars, groups or bands around to set any kind of dominant sound these days. Music journalism, like much of the rest of the industry, has […]

[Editor’s note: To see our other selections for Best of 2025, see here] How many times have you bought a book at a conference or at a bookstore, with the full intention of reading it posthaste, only to stumble upon it again twelve months later when you finely dig in? Unlike an album or a […]

[Editor’s note: To see our other selections for Best of 2025, see here] One could argue that unlike film and music, television’s aperture has only grown in recent years. The movement of stars and directors from film to TV (which historically had been seen as inferior to the movie industry), bolder attempts at storytelling, and […]

[Editor’s note: To see our other selections for Best of 2025, see here] Nearly five years on from the initial Covid outbreak, movies seem to be healing. For the past decade we’ve witnessed the exploits of newer talents like Greta Gerwig, Celine Sung, Jordan Peale, and Shawn Baker, among others who have delivered movies that […]