THE KRIEGER LIST: I ON THE ARTS' TOP 2022

With very little ado, enjoy my list of things I enjoyed in 2022 for the first time, in alphabetical order!

You will notice a lack of my own writing here. That's because I've been doing very cool things at the Museum of Work & Culture, and you can check out those projects here!

As always, you can check out previous years here: 2021 / 2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 best/worst.

Movies

• Chinatown, dir. Roman Polanski, 1974
• Everything Everywhere All At Once, dir. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, 2022
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, dir. Rian Johnson, 2022
• The Green Knight, dir. David Lowery, 2021
• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, dir. Tom Gormican, 2022
• The Worst Person in the World, dir. Joachim Trier, 2021

Books

• A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine, 2019
• Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, James W. Loewen, 1999
• The Final Strife, Saara El-Arifi, 2022
• Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones, 1986
• The Scholomance, trilogy by Naomi Novik, 2020-2022

Television

• Abbott Elementary (2021-ongoing, available on Hulu)
• Never Have I Ever season 3 (2022, available on Netflix)
• Only Murders in the Building season 1 (2021, available on Hulu)
• The White Lotus (2021-ongoing, available on HBO)
• Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997, available on YouTube in Japanese with subtitled English)

Music

• "12:51," The Strokes, 2003
• "Casimir Pulaski Day," Sufjan Stevens, 2005
• "Cleopatra," The Lumineers, 2016
• "Evacuate the Dancefloor," Cascada, 2009
• "Fast Car," Tracy Chapman, 1988
• "Future Me Hates Me," The Beths, 2018
• "I Don't Really Care For You," CMAT, 2022
• "Love Me More," Mitski, 2022
• "Make Out," Julia Nunes, 2015
• "Oh No," Softee, 2019
• "Pump It Up," Elvis Costello, 1978
• "Rondo-Revolution," Masami Okui, 1997
• "Running Up That Hill," Kate Bush, 1985
• "Saint Valentine's Day," Steven Van Zandt, 2017
• "Saturn's Light," Deb Talan, 2004
• "THAT'S WHAT I WANT," Lil Nas X, 2021
• "You and I," Léon, 2019

Performances

• Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Maya Hawke, Do Revenge (dir. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, 2022, available on Netflix)
• Quinta Brunson and Tyler James Williams, Abbott Elementary
• Simone Ashley and Jonathan Bailey, Bridgerton season 2 (2022, available on Netflix)
• Troy Kotsur, CODA (dir. Sian Heder, 2021, available on Apple+)

Longform Articles (in chronological order)

• William Finnegan, "The Unwanted," The New Yorker, November 23, 1997
• Joshua Foer, "Utopian for Beginners," The New Yorker, December 28, 2012
• Lars Christian Wegner, "Mystery at the Oslo Plaza," VG.no, June 9, 2017
• Rachel Aviv, "The Unravelling of a Dancer," The New Yorker, March 30, 2020
• Katie Prout, "Inside the Last Men’s Hotel in Chicago," The New Republic, April 7, 2021.
• Parul Sehgal, "The Case Against the Trauma Plot," The New Yorker, December 27, 2021
• Christine Grimaldi, "The Shadow and the Ghost," The Atavist no. 123, January 2022
• Andrea Marks, "Personality Changes and Viral Disco Videos: Friends and Family Worry Dancers Have Joined a ‘Cult’-Like Management Company," Rolling Stone, March 19, 2022
• Nathan Turowsky, "Heyday Heisei and Rewatch Reisa," April 5, 2022
• Tom Junod and Paula Lavigne, "Untold," ESPN Magazine, April 11, 2022
• David Gauvey Herbert, "The Follower," Esquire, June 7, 2022
• Sarah Schweitzer, "A Legendary Hot-Air Balloon Pilot Died after a Bizarre Crash. It Still Doesn’t Make Sense," Outside, July 19, 2022
• Chris Thompson, "A Perplexing Afternoon At The Saudi-Funded Golf Tournament In Trump’s Backyard," Defector, August 1, 2022
• Angelica Jade Bastién, "What Was Brangelina?" New York Magazine, October 24, 2022.
  
• Rachel Aviv, "Did the Oscar-Winning Director Asghar Farhadi Steal Ideas?" The New Yorker, October 31, 2022.
• Kerry Howley, "The Curse of Kentwood," New York Magazine, November 7, 2022.

Other

• "The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time," short story by Tamsyn Muir, Fantasy Magazine, 2011.
• Joe Vs. Elan School, ongoing webcomic by the author alias Joe Nobody, 2018-present
• The Trojan Horse Affair, podcast by Hamza Syed and Brian Reed, 2022
• You're Wrong About, podcast by Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes, 2018-present