Human-animal relationships

Song and Dance

By Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Witold Szablowski,

By Witold Szablowski, from Dancing Bears, a book of reportage that will be published next month by Penguin Books. Szab?owski is a journalist. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.…

Shaggy Dog Story

By Eileen Myles,

By Eileen Myles, from Afterglow (A Dog Memoir), which was published last month by Grove Press. Myles is a poet and the author of twenty books. Read More

Between the Dog and the Wolf

By Samuel James,

Honky, Napoleon, and the Empress Wu

By Lynn Freed,

The dog was my fault. I knew perfectly well that a Pekingese would be wrong in a household of ridgebacks and Irish setters. I also knew that one didn’t buy…

Killing Deer

By Jean Halley,

Most days that summer, when my brothers and I campaigned for my father in Wyoming, started out early. We drove long distances to dusty little towns, handing out flyers, asking…

The Homeless Herd

By Rowan Jacobsen,

The men of Nohotia hustled along the top of a twenty-foot earthen embankment and peered across a darkening floodplain of cabbages, eggplants, and mustard flowers at the gigantic shapes emerging…