Anguish, by August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck, c. 1878. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Animals

Volume VI, Number 2 | spring 2013

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Preamble

Man and Beast

By Lewis H. Lapham

Michel de Montaigne once considered, “When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime for her more than she is to me?”

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How to Be a Stuffed Animal

By Frances Stonor Saunders

The American Museum of Natural History, Teddy Roosevelt, and the importance of taxidermy.

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Map

Working Relationships

Man and beast in collaboration.

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Miscellany

One out of every two million lobsters is blue. One out of every thirty million lobsters is yellow, the creature’s rarest coloration.

c. 1890 | San Joaquin Valley

Scavenger Hunt

Mary Austin and fifty-seven buzzards. More

c. 1843 | Pacific Ocean

In the Mouth of a Whale

Herman Melville and the watery beast. More

c. 470 BC | West Africa

Gorilla Warfare

Hanno encounters a formidable foe. More

Charts & Graphs

Terms of Venery

Terms of Venery

From an army of caterpillars to a tiding of magpies.

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Photograph of American novelist Willa Cather.

Photograph of Native American poet and novelist Leslie Marmon Silko.

Photograph of Italian writer Italo Calvino.

Photograph of English art critic, novelist, and painter John Berger.

Image of Chinese Song Dynasty poet Mei Yaochen.

Photograph of Native American author N. Scott Momaday.

Photograph of Polish writer, artist, teacher, and critic Bruno Schulz.

Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

Photograph of American forger George Bidwell.

Photograph of Lithuanian-born French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas.

George Bidwell & Emmanuel Levinas

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