USFWS Pacific Southwest Region / Flickr THE FIRST FISH were completely marine, originating in the ocean. When coastlines got ...

Digging rock from hardscaped beds, I think, is a bit like not writing poetry—like thinking about writing poetry but digging ...

FROM RETIRED ELEPHANTS and chicken-eating seagulls to toothy raccoons and intrepid wolves, Alison Hawthorne Deming’s new ...

We’re big ol’ fans of Lulu Miller around here. Whether she’s guest editing our Spring Issue, teaching us about quantum birds ...

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THE FIRST TIME MAX! peed on the floor, we were delighted. He’d held his little bladder for so long after we left the shelter—more than twenty-four hours—we’d started to worry it would burst. Had he ...

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I’M NOT SURE IF HE was actually in remission when he said the movie knocked me out of remission, but I know for sure it put him in the hospital, back in the hospital for at least a few days, and he ...

"There is also this to consider about numbers: the way that the more a life’s counted, the less that life seems to count." ...

THIS WASN’T THE FIRST time they had chewed on my tires. Aside from the distant squawks of ibis and the occasional harsh crow of a nearby village rooster, all was still—that up-before-everyone-else ...

un-oceaned, pre-platonic, no need for names.