Explosions, Implosions, and Miniaturizations: Grantland’s Year in Pop Culture

by Grantland Staff on December 26, 2013

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How the Year of Miley Cyrus Was Really the Year of Mike Will Made It, by Amos Barshad

The Year in Internet: The Rise of the Hoax Economy, by Tess Lynch

The Year in Insanity: Kanye, Sinead, Gaga, and the Looming Specter of Amanda Bynes, by Emily Yoshida

Speeding Motorcycle of My Heart: The Year in KimYe, by Alex Pappademas

The Year of the Crush: How the Radically Unfair Candy Crush Saga Took Over Our Lives, by Tevis Thompson

Overlooked Books of 2013: A History of the Future in 100 Objects, Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception, and Bellies and Buffalos, by Kevin Nguyen

DivaRank! The Final Standings for 2013, by Jay Caspian Kang

The real TV trend of 2013? The rise of the strong female character, by Mark Harris

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