The Best Books of 2022
This year’s collection of best books varies broadly, yet they all seem to address an overarching theme: How well do we really know ourselves and our world?
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The 25 Best Christmas Albums by Pop Divas
Pop divas seem born for Christmas: they’re dramatic, emotional, sentimental, campy – everything that’s Christmas. These best Christmas albums suit the season.
The Best TV Shows of 2022 (That You May Have Overlooked)
The White Lotus, House of the Dragon, and Stranger Things picked up the hype, but there are more best TV shows to tick off before the new year.
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The 13 Best Pop Albums of 2022
The 13 best pop albums of 2022 radiate with unstoppable playlist power, much-needed sweet escapism, self-reflection, self-criticism, and killer melodies.
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The 15 Best Americana Albums of 2022
The best Americana albums are a multicultural, polysexual, mixed-gender, cross-genre lineup of music that fits somewhere under the big backyard of Americana.
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The Best Electronic Albums of 2022
This year’s best electronic albums span the widest range of styles of any genre, ranging from poppy and melodic electro to the experimental outer reaches.
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The 10 Best Progressive Rock/Metal Albums of 2022
The best progressive rock albums are profoundly ambitious and forward-thinking, music that’s immense, expansive, and mind-blowing, with dramatic elements.
The 10 Best Classic Films on Blu-ray and DVD in 2022
From gentle satire to something like an anarchist paint bomb tossed into an uptight dinner party, we feature the 10 Best Classic Films on Blu-ray and DVD in 2022 – and we toss in a few more, just for kicks.
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The 15 Best Country Albums of 2022
This year’s best country albums range from hard-country bands to traditional true-believers to indie-country renegades to pop-country superstars.
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The 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2022
Jazz, born of the creative brilliance of Black American culture and now wonderfully global, is passionately alive in 2022. These are the year’s best jazz albums.
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The 10 Best Global Music Albums of 2022
The best global music albums demonstrate how much art comes specifically from connections between people and the importance of the places they bring with them.
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The 10 Best Library Music Albums of 2022
The following ten best library music albums are bursting with largely instrumental, deeply cinematic tunes that’ll suit a gamut of possible occasions.
