Birds

Injustice Delayed

By Rebecca Solnit, on March 4, 2016

"The overall impression I came away with from the court decision was that Jarvis Jay Masters was considered a low-grade person who only deserved a low-grade trial. It’s certainly what…

Bird in a Cage

By Rebecca Solnit,

There are two things I think about nearly every time I row out into San Francisco Bay. One is a passage from Shankar Vedantam’s The Hidden Brain, in which he…

Rethinking Extinction

By James K. Boyce,

A little more than a hundred years ago, a bird named Martha, the last surviving passenger pigeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo. Her death was remarkable in the annals of…

Avian Voices

By James Seay,

I made a deal with the deer: I plant double, you take your half, I take my half. They broke the deal before the ink was dry. Shoots of corn…

Other Types of Poison

By Rebecca Makkai,

1. the ink Whether or not there were, at that moment, Jews hiding in the closets of the little lake house, no one can now remember. The point is that…

Vermilion Flycatcher, Arizona, May 1941

By Eliot Porter, on May 10, 2013

"Vermilion Flycatcher, Arizona, May 1941." Eliot Porter's work will be on view through July as part of Artist's Choice: Trisha Donnelly at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. © Amon Carter Museum…

Cold cocked

By G. Murray (George Murray) Levick,

Life in the zone

By Steve Featherstone,

Flock in awe

By Harper’s Staff,

Red House #1

By Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin,

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