Around that time, an article by Christopher Flavelle for the New York Times drove the plight of the Great Salt Lake into the ...

“Such immobility,” a scientist would later remark, “is astonishing for such a lively creature.” ...

Read more poetic translations of scientific research in Creature Needs. Reprinted from Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the ...

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Last year Jennie published We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood. It is an emotionally candid and ...

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IN THIS ISSUE, we gather a selection of writers and artists whose experiences broaden our understanding of sickness and disability, to foster a conversation among them about how the body informs our ...

Cover image by Laura McPhee, from her book "River of No Return" (Yale University Press, 2008) ...

ONE DAY, a man named Walter Bennett walked into my Aspen, Colorado, office holding a laptop. He was in his mid- to late fifties, with a graying crew cut, wearing khakis and a button-up shirt. He ...