The Big Ideas: Who Do You Think You Are? (original) (raw)

Highlights

  1. Life Doesn’t Need a Narrative Arc

The story of the self is not always a grand tale.
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CreditJun Cen 2. ### Revisiting the Past to Change the Future
Who we are isn’t always visible, but it’s crucial to how we see the world.
By Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste leads a band along a Brooklyn street during the NY PopsUp event in February 2021.
Jon Batiste leads a band along a Brooklyn street during the NY PopsUp event in February 2021.
CreditNina Westervelt for The New York Times 3. 1. ### What Horror Means to Me
Growing up in 1970s Argentina, fear was everywhere. It was also essential.
By Mariana Enríquez
A view of “Capuchita” (“Little Hood”), one of the areas at the former Navy School of Mechanics where people were secretly detained, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A view of “Capuchita” (“Little Hood”), one of the areas at the former Navy School of Mechanics where people were secretly detained, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
CreditAnita Pouchard Serra for The New York Times
2. ### In the Kitchen, a Soulful Serving of Heritage and Tradition
What our food says about us, our provenance and the cultural heirlooms we seek to pass on.
By Marcus Samuelsson
Fariyal Abdullahi and Marcus Samuelsson at Hav & Mar in New York.
Fariyal Abdullahi and Marcus Samuelsson at Hav & Mar in New York.
CreditLanna Apisukh for The New York Times

  1. Both of the One of Us
    The writer and translator who won the 2022 International Booker Prize talk about their relationship as interpreters of words and feelings, and about the alchemy of translation itself.
    By Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell

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  2. Dancers perform a scene during a rehearsal for Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
    CreditTimothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

  3. Machines and Morality
    A conversation with an unhinged Bing made me rethink what gives humans moral value.
    By Seth Lazar

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  5. The fashion designer Willy Chavarria, center, and his team in his studio in Brooklyn in 2021.
    CreditIsak Tiner for The New York Times

  6. A Gift of Love
    I wanted society to accept me, so I tried to live a life of pretense. Then you freed me.
    By Mari Katayama
    To construct “Gift,” Mari Katayama photographed the fingers of her family and friends, printed them on fabric and sewed them onto a heart-shaped piece of cloth.
    CreditMari Katayama

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