Table of Contents

2013 Spring

Animals

Introductory

• Man and Beast: by Lewis Lapham

Voices in Time

Kingdom

• George Steiner on a Strange Logic: 2008 / Cambridge
• Herman Melville in the Mouth of a Whale: c. 1843 / Pacific Ocean
• Angry Bird: 1920 / Prague
• Cautionary Tale: 1668 / Paris
• To Get to the Other Side: c. 1935 / Oklahoma
• Scavenger Hunt: c. 1890 / San Joaquin Valley
• For Fleas, Also: c. 1810 / Edo
• Rude Awakening: 1962 / Tanzania
• God Be With You, Ape: c. 1810 / Borneo
• Can They Suffer?: c. 1780 / London
• Circle of Life: c. 335 BC / Meng
• T.H. White Confronts the King of the Moat: 1216 / England
• Known Among Mountains: 1944 / Arizona
• Crossbreeding: 1924 / Dublin
• Theme and Variation: 1859 / London
• Rabble of Rats: c. 1378 / Worcestershire
• Norman Maclean Lands a Fish: 1937 / Montana
• Trading Places: 8 / Tomis
• Monkey Down: 1963 / Philippines
• John James Audubon Watches the Devastation: 1813 / Kentucky
• Locked Out: 1979 / Provincetown, MA
• Points Taken: c. 600 BC / Greece
• Other Nations: c. 1926 / Cape Cod
• Yield and Brace: 1994 / Tucson
• Loyal Beast: c. 1179 / France
• The Silent Majority: 1977 / France

Family

• Burkhard Bilger Patrols With the K-9 Unit: 2012 / New York City
• Mikhail Bulgakov's Lab Dog: c. 1925 / Moscow
• Eulogy: c. 1040 / China
• Natural Selection: c. 1865 / Russia
• Alfred Russel Wallace Adopts an Orangutan: 1855 / Borneo
• Eschatology: c. 1177 / Neyshabur
• From Zoo to Table: c. 1871 / Paris
• J. R. Ackerley Arranges a Marriage: 1946 / London
• Jealous Lover: c. 1690 / Sichuan
• Cattle Crossing: c. 200 / Mytilene
• Factory Farm: c. 1880 / Crow Butte
• Mourning the Death of Achilles: c. 1937 / Corfu
• Dark Horse: 344 BC / Macedonia
• Epistemologies: 1576 / Aquitaine
• Off to the Races: 1936 / Detroit
• Transference: c. 1785 / Königsberg
• Leo Tolstoy is Not an Ostrich: 1892 / Yasnaya Polyana
• Italo Calvino Follows a Rabbit: c. 1955 / Italy
• Tit for Tat: c. 1868 / St. Petersburg
• Flying High: c. 1183 / Damascus
• A Galaxy of Gazing Haloed Suns: 1952 / Milledgeville, GA
• A Vengeful Donkey: c. 150 / Thessaly
• Feathered Nest: 1933 / Drohobycz

Species

• Edward O. Wilson Enters a Labyrinth: 2010 / Lexington, MA
• Dissenting Opinion: 1784 / Passy
• Man and Bird: c. 815 / Xunyang
• Construction Site: 1767 / Paris
• Parting Glance: c. 1926 / Mombasa
• Death Comes for the Moth: c. 1940 / Sussex
• Large Bait: 1800 / Venezuela
• Beryl Markham Delivers a Foal: c. 1915 / Njoro
• Coat of Many Colors: c. 850 / England
• Dancing Elephants: c. 200 / Rome
• George Orwell is Expected to Do His Duty: c. 1925 / Burma
• Gorilla Warfare: c. 470 BC / West Africa
• Local and Organic: 1945 / Berlin
• Birth and Rebirth: 1195 / India
• When the World Was New: 1902 / Sussex
• Bear Trap: 1981 / Laguna Pueblo, NM
• A Rebel Cat: 1905 / Tokyo
• Animations: 1989 / Newport Beach, CA
• Deer Hunter: c. 1895 / British Columbia
• Albert Camus Counts Rats: c. 1943 / Oran
• Clothing the Dead: c. 1950 / Madagascar
• A Formal, Melancholy Soul: 1946 / Key West
• Bird of Birds: 1896 / Bombay

Departments

Essays

• One of Us: by John Jeremiah Sullivan
• How to Be a Stuffed Animal: by Frances Stonor Saunders
• Our Orgiastic Future: by Jack Hitt

Conversations

• Herodotus & Lynn Margulis: The Crocodile and the Bird
• George Bidwell & Emmanuel Levinas: Faithful Friends
• Plutarch & Henry David Thoreau: Vegetarian Options

Miscellany

• Cats, Rats, and Crabs: Findings from the Editors

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