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The 12.26.21 Issue — The Lives They Lived

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  1. The Lives They Lived

    Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year.

     By The New York Times Magazine

    Credit

  1. Sally Miller Gearhart Strove for a Self-Sufficient, Women-Centered World

    A radical lesbian feminist, she helped build a haven without men in the California redwoods.

     By Maggie Jones

    Sally Miller Gearhart on her land in Willits, Calif., in 1977.
    CreditJEB (Joan E. Biren)

  2. DMX Took a Trust Fall With His Music

    He bore the kind of pain Black men rarely get to air in public, hoping that transparency would manifest the tenderness he desired.

     By Ismail Muhammad

    DMX in New York, 1998.
    CreditJonathan Mannion

  3. Beverly Cleary Was a Troublemaker Who Wrote Books for Kids Like Herself

    Why, she wondered, didn’t anyone write stories about real kids — funny, angry, joyful, unruly vortexes of love and chaos?

     By Sam Anderson

    Cleary at age 6.
    CreditFrom the Cleary family.

  4. Rosalind Cartwright Wanted to Understand Divorcing Women’s Dreams

    The women who arrived at Rosalind Cartwright’s sleep laboratory in Chicago in 1978, carrying toothbrushes and pajamas, were in pain.

     By Kim Tingley

    Dr. Rosalind Cartwright at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, 1991.
    CreditChicago Sun-Times/Chicago History Museum

  5. Michael K. Williams Brought Humanity to Men on the Brink of Disaster

    He was a window into the lives we rarely choose to see.

     By Reginald Dwayne Betts

    CreditShayan Asgharnia/AUGUST

  1. The Devastating Observations of Janet Malcolm

    She could be harsh in her judgments but wrote with a deep understanding of human frailty.

     By Sasha Weiss

    Janet Malcolm in New York in 1989.
    CreditGeorge Lange

  2. Brigitte Gerney Was Crushed by a 35-Ton Crane, and Lived

    New York knew her as the “Crane Lady,” but she never let herself be defined by the accident that gave her the nickname.

     By Irina Aleksander

    Gerney in New York City, 1986.
    CreditDon Hogan Charles/The New York Times

  3. Mudcat Grant Sang Out Against Racism on the Baseball Field

    Fifty-six years before Colin Kaepernick took a knee and became a sensation, he mounted his own protest during the national anthem.

     By Rowan Ricardo Phillips

    Jim (Mudcat) Grant in 1970.
    CreditUnited Press International

  4. Did Larry King’s Obsession With Death Fuel His ‘Indomitable’ Will to Live?

    He spent his life trying to dodge his own mortality, resistant but haunted by its specter.

     By Jazmine Hughes

    Larry King in 1962.
    CreditTierney & Killingsworth/Photofest

  5. The Orphaned Gorilla That Touched the World

    A life in three viral photos.

     By Michael Paterniti

    Ndakasi with Andre Bauma shortly before her death.
    CreditBrent Stirton

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