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.

c. 1780 | London

Can They Suffer?

Is an animal man? More

1855 | Borneo

Adopting an Orangutan

Alfred Russel Wallace adds a new member to the family.More

c. 1950 | Madagascar

Clothing the Dead

A poem of the Malagasy people.More

Charts & Graphs

Trusty Steeds

Horse companions for the ages.

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Photograph of Italian writer Italo Calvino.

Photograph of East German writer Inge Müller.

Photograph of American writer and editor John Jeremiah Sullivan.

Photograph of British journalist and historian Frances Stonor Saunders.

Photograph of American animation director Chuck Jones.

Photograph of Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki.

The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.

—Archilochus, c. 650 BC

Photograph of American forger George Bidwell.

Photograph of Lithuanian-born French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas.

George Bidwell & Emmanuel Levinas

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