The Year In IllustrationDec. 13, 2022Share full article14 The Year In Illustration The most memorable New York Times illustrations of 2022 Aleia Murawski and Sam Copeland Apocalypse When? Global Warming’s Endless Scroll María Medem How Heat Waves Take a Toll on Mental Health Ibrahim Rayintakath Opinion: The American West’s Haunting, Smoke-Filled Future Bisa Butler, reference photograph by Alice Arnold The Visions of Octavia Butler Clay Hickson When It Comes to Wordle Strategies, It’s Personal Ben Hickey Fall Is the Season for Building Mindfulness and Resilience Laura Lannes Opinion: The Next Step in the Anti-Abortion Playbook Is Becoming Clear Kyutae Lee Opinion: My Abortion at 11 Wasn’t a Choice. It Was My Life. Chelsea Cardinal Opinion: Leave My Disability Out of Your Anti-Abortion Propaganda Grace J. Kim Opinion: Requiem for the Supreme Court Kimberly Elliott An Engaged Woman Sees the Ghosts of Relationships Past Gracey Zhang Opinion: Diet Culture Is Unhealthy. It’s Also Immoral. Hirotoshi Iwasaki Opinion: I Cherish My Grief for the Mother I Never Expected to Have Liana Finck Mommy Is Going Away for a While Nolan Pelletier Stay Cool Zohar Lazar It’s Summer. Go Wild. JooHee Yoon Opinion: Goodbye to You Igor Bastidas Are You Happy? Your Boss Is Asking. Charles Desmarais MapQuest and Other Internet Zombies Irene Suosalo Opinion: I Make Video Games. I Won’t Let My Daughters Play Them. Saehan Parc Does a Toddler Need an NFT? Jackie Carlise Opinion: Ignoring a Text Message or Email Isn’t Always Rude. Sometimes It’s Necessary. Christa Jarrold Will Streaming Save Sports or Kill It? Chase Hall ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone Hokyoung Kim Many Realities, or None at All Musubu Hagi My Grandfather’s Death Party Was a Final Gift to His Family Billie Carter-Rankin, photograph from the Library of Congress Opinion: We Need a New Language for Talking About Race Miki Kim When Did We Become So Obsessed With Being ‘Symmetrical’? Deanne Cheuk Can Virtual Reality Help Ease Chronic Pain? Eric Thompson Counterculture to Counterintuitive: Cannabis to Help You Diet? Brian Blomerth The French Naturalist Who Loved To Paint Mushrooms Karan Singh The Age of Distracti-pression Miguel Porlan The Limits of Biological Psychiatry Chantal Jahchan, photographs from Getty Images Opinion: My Therapist, The Robot Dante Zaballa 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington Lourenço Providência Opinion: We Will Forget Much of the Pandemic. That’s a Good Thing. Sofia Crespo Ambient Music Isn’t a Backdrop. It’s an Invitation to Suspend Time. Ciara Quilty-Harper A Memoir of Friendship and Death in a Vacation Idyll Luis Mazón Is Serena Williams the GOAT? Yes. No. Probably. Maybe. Without a Doubt. Raphaelle Macaron Read Your Way Through Paris E S Kibele Yarman A Rape Trial, and a Legal Travesty. In 1793. Yann Kebbi Cormac McCarthy’s New Novel: Two Lives, Two Ways of Seeing Jan Robert Duennweller Opinion: A Lost Manuscript Shows the Fire Barack Obama Couldn’t Reveal on the Campaign Trail Daniel Zender, photograph via National Archives Opinion: The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed Talia Cotton App Rules Are Twisted to Absurdity Kristina Tzekova Watching This Movie Taught Me It Was OK to Fail Álvaro Bernis Opinion: The Limits of ‘Lived Experience’ Jamiel Law How Does a Man Become an Island? Hannah Buckman What Is Black Love Today? Ohni Lisle Opinion: I’m a Trans Woman. Bullies Don’t Surprise Me, but Allies Still Do. Hyosun Hwang How to Feel Better Naked Sun Bai Try New Fruit. The Weirder, the Better. Dadu Shin Greetings From My Shameless Summer Dadu Shin How To Drop Out of College Diana Ejaita After 20 Years in a Men’s Prison, a Trans Woman Returns Home Andrew Rae How Many Billionaires Are There, Anyway? Tyler Comrie, photograph from Getty Images Opinion: I Am Not Proof of the American Dream Mona Chalabi 9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth Ben Denzer Rags-to-Riches Stories Are Actually Kind of Disturbing Luca Schenardi American Culture Is Trash Culture Matt Williams E.V.s Start With a Bigger Carbon Footprint. But That Doesn’t Last. Zhenya Oliinyk Opinion: Poems in a Time of Crisis Paola Saliby In ‘Drowning Practice,’ a Dreamlike Vision of the End of the World Pablo Delcan The Education Issue: 9.11.22 Anuj Shrestha The New World: Envisioning Life After Climate Change Adam Ferriss Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints Patricia Doria How A.I. Conquered Poker Scott Gelber Reality Intrudes on a Utopian Crypto Vision Jonathan Djob Nkondo We Are Our Own Architects Chris Burnett, photograph from the Library of Congress Opinion: We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What It Was Mohamed Sadek and Ege Soyuer How a Visual Language Evolves as Our World Does Debora Cheyenne Cruchon A Private War: Why PTSD Is Still Overlooked Lou Benesch It’s a Dog’s Life, if You Want It