The 10 Best Albums of 2025—Plus the 20 Songs That Met the Moment Carl Wilson
The top albums, singles, and protest anthems of the year.
Help! My Twin Swears I’m Out to Get Her. Uh, All I Did Was Deny Her Very Bizarre Demand for My Eggs. Jenée Desmond-Harris
Apparently, I’m saying no out of “spite.”
Skeleton Suits Were Once Popular Attire for Whom? Ray Hamel
Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Dec. 9, 2025.
A Deaf Poet’s Lifelong Search for Missing Sounds Anna Sale
“There is something English about the way silence can carry any heavy suppressed emotion.”