It’s Our Turn to Make a Best-of-2016 List!

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The end of the year tends to turn people reflective. They want to take stock of places they traveled, people they met, things they accomplished. So they make lists.

Last week, we got into the list-making game. We asked Bill Simmons, Ezra Edelman, Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton to share cultural moments in 2016 that stuck with them. They had so much fun with it that we decided to take a turn, too.

We spend this episode explaining our lists of cultural moments that, for the two of us, defined this year. Jenna’s is thoughtful and includes some inspired internet memes, a political moment and a one-name force of nature. Wesley’s is a mess, but has great movies, art and people. We could simply give you the lists here, but then you would just go on Twitter and disagree with us without ever listening to our arguments. So, sorry, you have to listen to the episode to get the list.

The end of the year is also a time to remember the people we lost. This week The New York Times Magazine publishes The Lives They Lived, its annual necrology — or “death yearbook,” as Jenna puts it. It’s full of lovely appreciations (including two that we wrote) of important people, some of whom are famous, some of whom are barely known but nonetheless made an impact, perhaps even on you.

The Lives They Lived tends to jerk tears and generate controversy, mostly for who’s not in it. We invited the issue’s editor, Ilena Silverman, to stop by and talk about what goes into creating something so tricky and so special.

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