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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The Experts, by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1837.

Our Orgiastic Future

By Jack Hitt

What do bonobos have in common with teenaged boys? As it turns out, quite a bit.

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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. 1880 | Crow Butte

Factory Farm

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

c. 1780 | London

Can They Suffer?

Is an animal man? More

c. 1871 | Paris

From Zoo to Table

Parisians eat a zoo during the Franco-Prussian War.More

Charts & Graphs

A Long Way from Home

Migration routes.

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Lewis Lapham at his desk

Painting of Benjamin Franklin reading a batch of papers next to a classical bust.

Black and white image of Japanese haiku poet Kobayashi Issa.

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

Photograph of American novelist Willa Cather.

Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.

—T. H. Huxley, 1895

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Henry David Thoreau

Plutarch & Henry David Thoreau

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