Wattana: An Orangutan in Paris tells the story of the titular primate, who (to cite the book’s jacket copy) “drinks tea, sews, draws on papers
Kirkus Reviews on Edmundo Paz Soldán’s Norte: A Novel, a refreshingly singular and urgent look at life “after” the US–Mexico border from one of Latin America’s most prominent literary
“Why Do Village Dogs All Look Alike?”* Of the billion dogs in the world, three-quarters of them look as much alike as do the individuals
“Parks, Biodiversity, and Education” by Edward O. Wilson* This is a very important meeting and book, and I’m grateful to be part of it. First,
“William Harvey’s Restless Clock”* Against this passivity, however, there were those who struggled to hold matter, feeling, and will together: to keep the machinery not
“Existentialist Twins”* Although few Americans had read The Stranger in French—it had been hard enough to find a copy in wartime France—word of the novel had
“Artificial Darkness Was Not a Medium”* Artificial Darkness does not advance the medium of darkness in place of the medium of painting or the medium
“Craft as Collective Practice”* One way of characterizing the social turn in contemporary artistic practice is to foreground its history in the pedagogical practices of
“Doctrinal Problems”* It may seem odd that we see so many constraints on expression in traditional public forums in light of today’s generally permissive First
“Opus 18, no. 1: Beethoven’s Painful Secret”* From his earliest days in Vienna Beethoven associated some of his compositions with friendship—a means by which to
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