Selections from a questionable year

Here's a present from us to you: some of the LARB staff's favorite pieces of 2022!

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A Third Space: On Karen Cheung’s “The Impossible City”
Jimin Kang reviews Karen Cheung’s “The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir.”
Jimin KangNov 14, 2022
- Around the World
- Memoir & Essay
Send More Cops: On Travis Linnemann’s “The Horror of Police”
Jarrod Shanahan reviews Travis Linnemann’s penetrating new book, “The Horror of Police.”
Jarrod ShanahanOct 31, 2022
All That Really Happens Happens to Me: On Annie Ernaux’s “Getting Lost”
Kaya Genç surveys the work of Annie Ernaux via her memoir “Getting Lost,” translated by Alison L. Strayer.
Kaya GençOct 10, 2022
Victor Serge: The Spirit of Liberty
Jared Marcel Pollen celebrates the survival of Victor Serge.
Jared Marcel PollenAug 23, 2022
“Enlightened or Disturbed”: A Conversation with Elaine Hsieh Chou
An interview with Elaine Hsieh Chou about love and rage as it plays out in her latest book, "Disorientation," as well as in her funny and heartbreaking piece, “The 100% Silicone Vibrating Ass & Pussy Speaks,” published in the summer “Do You Love Me” issue of The LARB Quarterly.
Ruth Minah BuchwaldAug 18, 2022
- Fiction
- LARB Lit
Retroactive Abortion: Time Travel and the Unborn Baby
Lauren Collee shows how time-travel movies of the 1980s reinforced Christian ideals of destiny, presenting abortion as a disruption to a “natural” timeline.
Lauren ColleeAug 13, 2022
- Film
- SF
The Vandal
Why does Salvador Dalí’s religious art inspire such ferocious responses?
Kasra LangMay 2, 2022
- Art & Architecture
Infamous
In an essay from the new LARB Quarterly, Anthony C. Ocampo reflects on the T-parties of his young adult life in Los Angeles.
Anthony C. OcampoApr 21, 2022
- LARB Lit
A Stained Glass in Lviv
Yuliya Komska fears for the stained glass of Lviv, and argues that mourning the loss of art is not separate from mourning for the destruction of human life.
Yuliya KomskaMar 15, 2022