Movies (Schickel)
Movies (Corliss)
Theater
Architecture
Television
Books
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell By Susanna Clarke
- Gilead By Marilynne Robinson
- Runaway By Alice Munro
- The Master By Colm Toibin
- The Hamilton Case By Michelle de Kretser
- Will in the World - How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare By Stephen Greenblatt
- Blue Blood By Edward Conlon
- The Gourmet Cookbook Edited by Ruth Reichl
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim By David Sedaris
- Persepolis 2 - The Story of a Return By Marjane Satrapi
Music
- The College Dropout by Kanye West
- More Adventurous by Rilo Kiley
- Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand
- How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb by U2
- A Ghost is Born by Wilco
- Funeral by Arcade Fire
- Confessions by Usher
- Here for the Party by Gretchen Wilson
- (TIE) Not Going Anywhere - Soviet Kitsch
- The Best Songs
Comix
- McSweeney's Quarterly Concern No. 13 Edited By Chris Ware
- Phoenix - Karma By Osamu Tezuka
- Bone - One Volume Edition By Jeff Smith
- Kramer's Ergot No. 5 Edited by Sammy Harkham
- Locas By Jaime Hernandez
- Clyde Fans - Book One By Seth
- Amy & Jordan By Mark Beyer
- Eightball No. 23 By Dan Clowes
- Mother, Come Home By Paul Hornschemeir
- Bighead By Jeffrey Brown
- (Worst) Jimbo in Purgatory By Gary Panter
Children's Books
- What Presidents Are Made Of By Hannah Piven
- The Friend By Sarah Steward - Pictures by David Small
- Mister Seahorse By Eric Carle
- Teeth, Tails and Tentacles - An Animal Counting Book By Christopher Wormell
- The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book By Lisa Campbell Ernst
- Polar Bear Night By Lauren Thompson - Pics by Stephen Savage
- Alice the Fairy By David Shannon
- A Spree in Paree By Catherine Stock
- Circle Unbroken By Margo Theis Raven - Pics by E.B. Lewis
- Bunny Mail By Rosemary Wells
Come fly with us, and Leo, through the best (and worst) of 2004. Tops in the cinema this year include Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator. Elsewhere, Deadwood was good TV, and a Strange tale fascinated readers.