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We’re continuing our annual tradition of sharing the movies, TV shows, books, music, and more that touched and inspired us this year—regardless of when these works were actually released.

Restricting the content of best-of lists to things produced or released during a single year is, in many ways, fairly arbitrary. Books, movies, or TV shows don't cease to be relevant as soon as the calendar changes. So we put together a selection of some of the things we particularly enjoyed in 2022. Here's hoping they bring you joy, make you think, and entertain you in 2023.

Around the start of the new year, we like to post lists of the best books, movies, TV shows, albums, and really anything else that we enjoyed over the previous twelve months—regardless of when they may have actually been released. But as 2020 turned into 2021, none of us were feeling especially keen on looking back over the previous year, so we let this tradition go dormant.

Restricting the content of best-of lists to things produced or released during a single year is, in many ways, fairly arbitrary. Books, movies, or TV shows don't cease to be relevant as soon as the calendar changes. So we put together a selection of some of the things we particularly enjoyed in 2019. Here's hoping they bring you joy, make you think, and entertain you in 2020.

Restricting the content of best-of lists to things produced or released during a single year is, in many ways, fairly arbitrary. Books, movies, or TV shows don't cease to be relevant as soon as the calendar changes. So we put together a selection of some of the things we particularly enjoyed in 2017. Here's hoping they bring you joy, make you think, and entertain you in 2018.

Restricting the content of best-of lists to things produced or released during a single year is, in many ways, fairly arbitrary. Books, movies, or TV shows don't cease to be relevant as soon as the calendar changes. Museums and cocktails are almost entirely timeless. With that in mind, we got together to come up with a list of the stuff we enjoyed the most in 2016, in the hopes that some of it might make your 2017 a bit brighter.