Six Cat Poems That Aren’t That Owl and Pussycat One
There's nothing practical about these felines. Meow.
The Poet Who Wanted to Be Eaten by Vultures
One day in 1971, the hard-drinking Beat poet Lew Welch walked into the woods of Nevada County and disappeared, possibly angling to be eaten by vultures.
An Early Short Story from Pulitzer-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen
An early story from 2016 Pultizer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Eduardo Galeano 1940-2015
A historian of Latin America, and a victim of two dictatorships, Galeano was also inevitably a historian of the colossus to the north.
How The Near Extinction of Indian Vultures Led to Disaster
The populations of the nine species of Indian vultures began to plummet in the 1990s