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It's Not Easy Running a Retirement Home for Old Dancing Bears

It's Not Easy Running a Retirement Home for Old Dancing Bears

Small-Town Bulgarians Wonder Why the Bears Get Strawberries

By witoldszablowski | March 6, 2018

The Horse: Beloved Metaphor of Your Favorite 19th-Century Novelists

The Horse: Beloved Metaphor of Your Favorite 19th-Century Novelists

How One Animal Came to Symbolize Love and Broken Marriages

By Ulrich Raulff | February 12, 2018

Appalachia Isn't the Reason We're Living in Trump Country

Appalachia Isn't the Reason We're Living in Trump Country

Elizabeth Catte on the Myths Shaping the Region, and Who Profits from Them

By Elizabeth Catte | February 8, 2018

In Awe of Seabirds at the Edge of the World

In Awe of Seabirds at the Edge of the World

Adam Nicolson Beholds the Poetic Beauty of the Guillemot

By Adam Nicolson | February 7, 2018

How to Read Caves

How to Read Caves

From Tennessee's Tuckaleechee Caverns to the
Caves of John Keats, Virgil, and Virginia Woolf

By Susan Harlan | January 19, 2018

The Half-Wild Muse: On Writers and Their Cats

The Half-Wild Muse: On Writers and Their Cats

Cats Are Kindred Spirits: Observers, Introverts, Always Practicing Their Craft

By Tim Weed | January 10, 2018

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Why Do We Fear Wolves?

By Erica Berry | December 12, 2017

Can an Artist Help Captive Elephants Win Legal Personhood?

By Julia Cooke | December 5, 2017

Laura Ingalls Wilder and One of The Greatest Natural Disasters in American History

By Caroline Fraser | December 5, 2017

Spare Us Your Elegies: Who Will Advocate for West Virginia?

Spare Us Your Elegies: Who Will Advocate for West Virginia?

There Can Be No Improvement Without a Viable Political Identity

By Steven Stoll | December 4, 2017

A Fleeting Resource: In Praise of the Deep Cold

A Fleeting Resource: In Praise of the Deep Cold

Miranda Weiss on Moving to Alaska, and Choosing to Stay There

By Miranda Weiss | December 4, 2017

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

"I had that nervous date feeling, like you were all a giant Earth sign”

By Kyle Lucia Wu | December 1, 2017

How Wolves Shape the Natural World

How Wolves Shape the Natural World

The Fall and Rise of the American Wolf

By Nate Blakeslee | November 30, 2017

Making Sense of the End of the World

Making Sense of the End of the World

On Nuclear Technology, Climate Change, and Apocalyptic Narratives

By Robert Jay Lifton | November 20, 2017

A Brief History of Phantom Islands

A Brief History of Phantom Islands

Why Did Oceangoing Explorers Make Up So Much Stuff?

By Malachy Tallack | November 20, 2017

How Does It Feel to Die in a Tsunami?

How Does It Feel to Die in a Tsunami?

When Everything You Planned Goes Wrong, and Still You Survive

By Richard Lloyd Parry | November 14, 2017

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