December 17, 2025 – “ ‘I got a camera for $7.98—a Brownie,’ Babitz notes on December 21, 1969, ‘and have been taking pictures ...

Mathew Weitman’s debut poetry collection, The Campus Novel, is forthcoming with Tupelo Press. His work can be found in Copper ...

This year, we asked our contributors, our readers, our current and former interns, and other friends of the Review for their ...

I’d been working at Balthazar for a few months when Debra pulled me aside to tell me they knew I’d lied on my resume. Was I ...

Monsieur Baba appeared out of a dusty white Toyota, which he was maneuvering with one hand. He was dressed in used dusty blue ...

December 8, 2025 – “On the historic day when he finally reaches Lhasa, his journal entry begins: 'Our first care was to ...

I swiveled my head then to find a deercamouflaged by the leaves no longer there“what should I do with someone’s silhouette?” ...

In the latter half of my student days I chose for myself three Arab friends: a Palestinian, a Sudanese, and the third was a ...

January 28, 2016 – Horace Walpole coined the word serendipity in a letter to another Horace—Mann—dated January 28, 1754. The occasion was pretty unremarkable—it was a happy ...

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. Service by John ...

In 1934, Columbia University moved its twenty-two miles of books to the newly built Butler Library. By means of a really long slide. Which actually looks less fun than it sounds, and was much too ...

In anticipation of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, Nathan Gelgud, a correspondent for the Daily, has been posting a regular weekly comic about the writers, artists, and ...