True And Not True

True And Not True

Year-End Lists

They annoy me every year.

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Ben Greenman
Dec 14, 2025
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They don’t have perspective. Who cares if someone likes something in a certain year? The whole field is distorted. Sometimes we like something because of a microblip, or because it’s responding directly to something else, or is similar but slightly different from another book or movie or album. We need a longer view.

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