animals
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Sound of Galton’s Whistle
Those acres of wild were not about to cough up what I was missing no matter how much I clapped and whistled.
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Changing the Subject
Does the time come for everyone when holding it in just won’t do anymore? I kept the story of my abortion to myself until Michael broke up with me two years later.
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Weekly Geekery
What we need is a kinder, gentler robot. The currency of clicks. Using Google to find a monster. Shedding your own skin. Thinking beyond extinction.
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Writing as an Animal
“Can fiction show us how animals think?” Ivan Kreilkamp doesn’t think so, and tells us why in an essay over at the New Yorker.
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The Animals in My Home
I let the flame get low. I fall asleep before blowing it out. I know I shouldn’t, but in the moments when I wake from nightmares, I like the warmth the candle offers, despite the danger.
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Hunting the Pages
I find the threat of predation satisfying in a short story because, when done well, it solicits a visceral reaction. The etymology of the word visceral can be traced to the Latin word viscera, which was used to refer to…
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A Library of Venom
Australia has some of the world’s deadliest fauna. A new library hopes to store samples of these creatures’ venom. Snakes, octopus, spiders, and even platypus will be caught and milked, reports the Guardian, and the venom will be stored in the…
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A Dog Named Human
For me, the perfect metaphor for rethinking our relationship to other species comes in the form of a dog named “Human,”owned and “curated” by French artist Pierre Huyghe, in his retrospective currently on view at LACMA. Ironically enough, such a…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Michael Bazzett
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Michael Bazzett about his new book, You Must Remember This, the malleability of memory, and humor in poetry.
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Ted Hughes’s Animals
A new collection called “A Ted Hughes Bestiary” offers selections of Hughes’s animal poems. The Intelligent Life discusses how this work formed “the backbone” of his career.
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Our Pets, Ourselves
After her dog leapt out of a third story window, writer Laurel Braitman became fascinated by animal psychology. Check out her interview with NPR to see what animal behavior reveals about humans and why gorillas at the Bronx Zoo love…
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Animals as Rorschach Tests
We’re psyched to see that our Comics Symposium interview with Connie Sun was linked by NPR’s Robert Krulwich. Krulwich highlighted Sun’s comics about animals and our relationships with them. Check it out: “The Right Way to Hug a Lion.”