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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Painting of cows resting in a landscape with two herdsmen at right.

One of Us

By John Jeremiah Sullivan

Can animals think or feel, experience joy or sadness? Can they know their own existence?

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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.

1767 | Paris

Construction Site

Buffon marvels at the ingenuity of beavers.More

c. 1895 | British Columbia

Deer Hunter

On becoming one of the hunted.More

c. 1880 | Crow Butte

Factory Farm

Luther Standing Bear recalls the taste of free-range livestock.More

Charts & Graphs

Trusty Steeds

Horse companions for the ages.

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Photograph of Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki.

Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

Photograph of Native American poet and novelist Leslie Marmon Silko.

Photograph of English novelist and satirist T. H. White.

Painted portrait of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon.

Photograph of American author Laura Hillenbrand.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005

Photograph of American forger George Bidwell.

Photograph of Lithuanian-born French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas.

George Bidwell & Emmanuel Levinas

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