Best Photos of the Day

Childhood photographs of CNN anchor, author and podcast host Anderson Cooper and his brother, Carter, in the historic firehouse that he bought for $4.3 million in 2009, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan on Nov. 13, 2023. On the bookshelves and side tables of a living room in Cooper’s converted firehouse are various objects he recovered from his mother’s home. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

The CNN anchor, author and podcast host Anderson Cooper holds a note left by his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, identifying a skirt and blouse as the garments she was wearing on the day his brother, Carter Cooper, died, at his home in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan on Nov. 13, 2023. Cooper began keeping voice memos on his phone as he was sorting through his mother’s belongings in 2021. They grew into a podcast on grief, “All There Is With Anderson Cooper,” which began its second season in November. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

The CNN anchor, author and podcast host Anderson Cooper shows off the gallery of his mother’s paintings and photos that he created in the stairwell of his townhouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan on Nov. 13, 2023. The difficult work of going through his mother’s boxes — and examining his grief on his podcast — is beginning to pay off. For the first time in decades, Cooper said, he is able to feel again. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

The CNN anchor, author and podcast host Anderson Cooper goes through items left by his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, in the basement of his home in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan on Nov. 13, 2023. Recently, Cooper opened a box of his father’s papers and discovered an unpublished essay: “The Importance of Grieving.” (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

One of Gloria Vanderbilt’s “dream boxes,” containing unopened letters she found at a flea market, in the home of her son, the CNN anchor, author and podcast host Anderson Cooper, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan on Nov. 13, 2023. She fantasized that they were love letters and never opened them, fearing the reality would disappoint her. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

A painting by Gloria Vanderbilt in the historic firehouse that her son, the CNN anchor, author and podcast host Anderson Cooper, bought for $4.3 million in 2009, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan on Nov. 13, 2023. The difficult work of going through his mother’s boxes — and examining his grief on his podcast — is beginning to pay off. For the first time in decades, Cooper said, he is able to feel again. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

Photographs of CNN anchor, author and podcast host Anderson Cooper’s brother, Carter Cooper, who died when they were in their 20s, in his home in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan on Nov. 13, 2023. On the bookshelves and side tables of a living room in Cooper’s converted firehouse are various objects he recovered from his mother’s home. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

The basement of the historic firehouse where the CNN anchor, author and podcast host Anderson Cooper lives, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan on Nov. 13, 2023. In the basement, Cooper is working his way through the last 70 or so boxes of his mother’s belongings. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

The CNN anchor, author and podcast host Anderson Cooper in his home, a historic firehouse he bought for $4.3 million in 2009, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan on Nov. 13, 2023. Cooper began keeping voice memos on his phone as he was sorting through his mother’s belongings in 2021. They grew into a podcast on grief, “All There Is With Anderson Cooper,” which began its second season in November. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

The CNN anchor, author and podcast host Anderson Cooper looks through items that belonged to his mother in his home, a historic firehouse he bought for $4.3 million in 2009, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan on Nov. 13, 2023. Among the notes Cooper found when he went to clean out his mother’s apartment was this one, left on top of a stack of glasses that had belonged to his father. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)