Friday Fixations: Best of 2024

What I was into this year

Here, several weeks later than the rest of the world does it, is my best-of list for 2024. For the record, I am not a cultural critic; these are just the records, TV shows, movies, and books I personally liked the most.

Albums:

• Waxahatchee, Tigers Blood

• Dehd, Poetry

• Liquid Mike, Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot

• Illuminati Hotties, Power

• Webbed Wing, Vol. III

• Shit Present, Acting Tough

• World’s Greatest Dad, Better Luck Next Time

• Mannequin Pussy, I Got Heaven

• Soft Kill, Escape Forever

• Cloud Nothings, Final Summer

• Drug Church, PRUDE

• Family Dinner, God Looks Out For Fools

• Mat Kerekes, To Dream of Something Wicked

• Dazy, IT’S ONLY A SECRET (if you repeat it)

• The Copyrights, New Ghosts

TV Shows:

• Shogun

• House of the Dragon

• Say Nothing

• Get Millie Black

• Black Doves

• Presumed Innocent

• True Detective: Night Country

• 3 Body Problem

• Under the Bridge

Movies:

• Dune 2

• Anora

• Conclave

• Juror #2

• Fall Guy

• Super/man

• The Wild Robot

• Hitman

• The Bikeriders

Books:

(These are the best books I read this year, although not all of them came out this year.)

• Age of Vice, by Deepti Kapoor

• Night Boat to Tangier, by Kevin Barry

• You Dreamed of Empires, by Alvaro Enrique

• Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry

• The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai

• The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath

• Our Share of Night, by Mariana Enriquez

• The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray

• Devil Makes Three, by Ben Fountain

• The Long Corner, by Alexander Maksik

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