Month: December 2025

Anya Berger in the early 1960s. Courtesy of Katya Berger. Anya Berger (1923–2018) is most famous for being the wife and “muse” of art critic and novelist John Berger. In 2018, after…

Snapshot of Anya Berger in the late 1960s, taken by Jean Mohr in Ornans, France. Courtesy of Katya Berger. The following fragment, which dates to 1969, was unearthed in the archives of…

Dickens’s Dream, unfinished painting by Robert W. Buss, 1875. Public domain. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Dream. All global financial markets have been crashed by a computer worm called the “Be Interesting” virus….

Photograph courtesy of Adelaide Faith. CAVEH Ever since I was five years old, I’ve been obsessed with finding a romantic partner. I believe that the purpose of life is to join with…

Today is Thursday, Dec. 18, the 352nd day of 2025. There are 13 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 18, 2011, the last convoy of heavily armored U.S….

This year, we asked our contributors, our readers, our current and former interns, and other friends of the Review for their favorite books of the past year. Here’s what they said.   …

Balthazar in the nineties. Photo by James Leynse/Corbis, via Getty Images. It was lunchtime at the restaurant. Sunlight streamed through the blinds, cutting the halogens from the side so you could see…

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping (except for food and gas) or important decisions after 11:30 p.m. EST today (8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. PST). After that, the Moon moves from LEO into VIRGO….

New York City Marble Cemetery interior. Photograph by Dmadeo, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. In issue no. 253, we published an excerpt of Eileen Myles’s “Bird Watching,” a poem…

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping (except for food and gas) and major decisions from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. PST today (5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. PST). After that, the Moon moves from…