The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Laura Hillenbrand
When the lives of a failed prizefighter, an aging horsebreaker, and a bicycle-repairman-turned-overnight-millionaire converged around a battered little horse named Seabiscuit, the result captivated the nation and transcended their sport.
by Michael Finkel
Two young Danes find out if they’re tough enough for the world’s only military dogsled team.
by Joshua Bearman
…with important parallels and/or implications regarding: koala bears, the pied piper, spongemonkeys, cane toads, the black death, and text-messaging.
by Jon Mooallem
Pigeon-related damage in America has been estimated to cost $1.1 billion a year. But the full scope of our disdain and distrust for the birds is impossible to quantify.
By Abigail Tucker
The world’s foremost lion expert reveals the brutal, secret world of the king of beasts.
by Buzz Bissinger
None of them had ever seen a horse like Barbaro: the speed of a rocket, the spirit of a champion in his eyes. But Barbaro was betrayed by his own Thoroughbred body.
by Oliver Sacks
It had a huge horned head, a stupendous white body, and an enormous, mild, milk-white face. And in that moment it changed before my eyes, becoming transformed from magnificent to utterly monstrous…
by Alexis Madrigal
While there are more than 8 million Holstein dairy cows in the United States, there is exactly one bull that has been scientifically calculated to be the very best in the land. He goes by the name of Badger-Bluff Fanny Freddie.
by Kathleen McAuliffe
Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia?
