Animals
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On learning to hate chickensThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Two novelists (one Swiss, one Spanish) sign up for agricultural jobs.
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The coldest, cleanest water in EuropeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?
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What an animal isn’tThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Two vastly different books — one a picaresque tale, the other a dystopian meditation — both recount a transition from human to animal or from animal to human.
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From the knacker’s yardThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On the fallen animals loved by Heinrich von Kleist & Curzio Malaparte.
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Two palindromesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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→ Setting of the Sun at West Mountain / Puffing & panting ←→ Worm-eaten Rimbaud / Always knowing whom ←
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The case of the missing elephantThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On animal charisma and animal vengeance. What happens when an elephant goes missing a year after her death.
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Art before artThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Paleolithic painters & speculative criticism.
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SchwarzeneggerologyThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »
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The art of losingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On artificial intelligence, murderous elephants & Elizabeth Bishop
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The inborn germThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Why death? Who or what dies? Philosophers tend not to explain, but to justify. When do such questions become biological questions? Does it help?
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No money off a dead woman’s body (& other poems)This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« I like my tyrants like I like my heroes. That is, crushed by a giant chandelier. »
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Kill your darlingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Like plots in a garden cemetery, with lamentations, good-riddances or other epitaphs.