Staff Picks of 2022

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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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....

Aug 13

FILM

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....

Oct 10

NONFICTION

MEMOIR & ESSAY

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A Third Space: On Karen Cheung’s “The Impossible City”

Jimin Kang reviews Karen Cheung’s “The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir.”...

Nov 14

AROUND THE WORLD

MEMOIR & ESSAY

“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....

Aug 18

LARB LIT

FICTION

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....