best of 2025
January 13th, 2026
Music
Zoh Amba – Sun
Stuart Moxham – Winter Sun
Sharp Pins – Radio DDR
keiyaA – hooke’s law
Milan W. – Leave Another Day
Clipse – Let God Sort Em Out
Joanne-Robertson – Blurrr
Blood Orange – Essex Honey
Nídia & Valentina – Estradas
Rosalía – Lux
Nina Garcia – Bye Bye Bird
claire rousay – a little death
No Home – Princess Suite
Cosy Fanny Tutti – 2 t 2
Xexa – Kissom
Arthur Russell – Calling Out Of Context
Chicago Underground Duo – Hyperglyph
Klinck Trio – My Hair Is Everywhere
Clark – Steep Stims
Film/TV
Walter Salles – Ainda Estou Aqui / I’m Still Here
Kleber Mendonça Filho – O Agente Secredo / The secret agent
Vince Gilligan – Pluribus
Pedro Pinho – O Riso e a Faca
Rebecca Miller – Mr. Scorsese
Mário Patrocínio – Maria Vitória
Bong Joon Ho – Memories of Murder
Lucile Hadzihalilovic – The Ice Tower
Kelly Reichardt – The Mastermind
Hafsia Herzi – La Petite Dernière
Gints Zilbalodis – Flow
Athina Rachel Tsangari – Harvest
Pedro Martín Calero – El IIanto / Les Maudites
Mark Brotherhood – Ludwig
Bruno Stagnaro – El Eternauta / The Eternaut
Kat Sadler – Such brave girls
Nikos Nikolaidis – Πρωινή περίπολος / Morning patrol
Eric Gravel – Full time / À plein temps
Brad Ingelsby – Task
Scott Frank, Elisa Amoruso – Dept.Q
Books
Erika Fatland – Seefahrer
Qntm – Ra
Metz/Seeßlen – Blödmaschinen II
Yoko Ogawa – The Memory Police
Dorothy Max Pior – Sex Is No Emergency
Dimiter Dimow – Tabak
Debsey Wykes – Teenage Daydream
Georges Perec – Die Dinge
Marcelo Rubens Paiva – Ainda Estou Aqui
Ann Patchett – These precious days
Will Hermes – Lou Reed, the king of New York
Clarice Lispector – Erzählungen
Barnabas Calder – Raw Concrete
Walter M. Miller Jr. – A canticle for Leibowitz
David Foster Wallace – Consider the Lobster and other essays
Inês D’Orey – Porto Interior
Tatiana Faia – Recurso e Pobreza
Charlotte Beradt – Das Dritte Reich des Traums