Ursula K. Le Guin may no longer publish fiction, but that hasn’t stopped her from writing.
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Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
They’re Good Dogs, Brent: Meet Costa Rica’s Stray-Dog Whisperer
In Outside magazine, Bob Shacochis profiles Lya Battle, creator of Costa Rica’s Territorio de Zaguates, an open-air shelter home to hundreds of dogs.
Posted inBooks, Food, Story
Eating Alone
We’re eating alone more often than in any previous generation. But why should a meal on our own be uninspired? Why shouldn’t the French saying “life is too short to drink bad wine” still apply?
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story
The Haväng Dolmen
A trip to a Swedish stone-age burial site gives an archaeologist too close a look at death.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story, Travel
A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Entirely Underground
Journalist Will Hunt, who made the crossing with a group of urban explorers, recounts being menaced by rainwater and rats — and meeting fellow subterranean wanderers along the way.
Posted inNonfiction
The Enduring Myth of a Lost Live Iggy and the Stooges Album
In 1973, Columbia Records professionally recorded the infamous band for a planned concert record. Columbia never released it. Maybe they never recorded it.
Posted inNonfiction, Uncategorized
My Favorite Animal Longreads of 2016
In November 2015, I adopted a dog. Harley. These 12 pounds of mostly shelter-raised animal cracked open the harder parts of my heart and I found myself sobbing into my coffee, almost daily, while reading the latest stories about rescue dogs. I’d gone so far as to set a Google Alert on “rescue dog,” and […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
I’m Renting a Dog?
Can purebreds on leases democratize credit? The Nevadan behind Wags Lending thinks so.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Want To See a Polar Bear? Just Follow the Bones
In one Alaskan town, the bone pile is a bounty for hungry polar bears and enterprising tour guides.
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Favorite Animal Longreads of 2016
“Not all my favorite animal reads this year are about dogs, or even directly about animals, they’re more about the complex ways humans interact with and react to animals. Some of these are a reach, but they’re all excellent reads with animals (in one case, a Triassic period aquatic crustacean, no really) as the instigator.”
