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(Nearly) everything I loved in 2025

I know that a year-end list is, in many ways, quite arbitrary. What’s the difference between something that comes out in December of one year and something that comes out in the January of the next? Not much, really, besides a calendar switch. And yet, art-pop critic that I am, I am inexorably drawn to such a yearly ritual and derive great pleasure from…