This year has been exceptionally busy at Boston Review! In addition to our four print issues, in 2022 we published thirty-eight essays on race, twenty-two philosophy pieces, thirty-four poems, and twenty-four contributions to our class and inequality section—not to mention hundreds more essays across our other sections and special projects.

Given this wealth of great writing, there’s a chance you might have missed some of our excellent essays! Before we launch our countdown of this year’s twenty most-loved pieces, we wanted to highlight ten essays that may have flown under your radar. From a look at the legacy of the War on Terror and a moving recollection of Barbara Ehrenreich to an analysis of populism and a memoir of Black boyhood in Birmingham, here are some of our editors’ favorites.