Month: November 2025

All photographs by Oliver Egger. IJust as the sun begins to peek over the flat horizon of Coon Rapids, Iowa, 1,383 pigeons fill the sky. The birds pour out as a single…

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping (except for food and gas) or important decisions from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST today (9:30 a.m. to 12 noon PST). After that, the Moon moves from…

Lily Allen. Photograph courtesy of Jean Garnett. “Who is Madeline?” asks my daughter. We’ve been singing that new Lily Allen song all morning—“Da da da da da da da who’s Madeline?”; we can’t…

Moon Alert: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in SAGITTARIUS. Happy Birthday for Friday, Nov. 21, 2025: You are generous, good-natured, energetic and supportive to…

šalḫanti-/šalḫiyanti- lexical filing card, with this paragraph from the Disappearance of Telipinu in the Chicago Hittite Dictionary. Courtesy of the author. For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and…

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping (except for food and gas) or important decisions from 4 a.m. to 5 a.m. EST today (1 a.m. to 2 a.m. PST). After this, the Moon moves from…

Peter Matthiessen in New York City, 1961. Photograph by Ben Martin/Getty Images. When Peter Matthiessen’s name comes up in conjunction with The Paris Review, two facts are sure to emerge. The first…

EDMONTON, Alberta — Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and two assists, Cale Makar, Parker Kelly and Jack Drury also scored twice and the Western Conference-leading Colorado Avalanche embarrassed the Edmonton Oilers 9-1…

Film stills from Die Macht der Gefühle (The power of emotion), final sequence: “Undoing of a crime by means of cooperation,” 1983. All images courtesy of Alexander Kluge. ARRIVAL OF SUNDAY’S CHILD…

HOUSTON — I don’t believe in Santa Claus. But, by golly, I believe in Bo Chapman Nix. The Easter Bunny? Fuzzy-wuzzy fraud. The Tooth Fairy? Fake chews. But if a game is…