Interview
Kenyan Wildlife May Have Inspired Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax
A new essay suggests that the patas monkey and its ecological relationship with the whistling thorn acacia tree inspired Dr. Seuss’s famous environmental children’s book.
Ashley P. Taylor
Ashley P. Taylor is a freelance writer and journalist covering science, the arts, and their intersection. Find more of her work at ashleyptaylor.com .
Interview
In the Desert, a Vulture Spirit Follows a Trail of Femicide
Alone amid cacti, barbed wire, and phone lines, she is looking for something. The figure raises her rake — which seems like half claw, half witch’s broom — above her head, then returns to it to the sand.
Art
Traces of Extinct Animals at the Armory Show
The animals have gone missing from booth 844. Framed nature prints crowd the holly walls, but the auks, cougars, wolves, and woodpeckers that were once their subjects have been cut out, leaving blank spaces behind in a sort of artistic animal Rapture.