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Cumbrian Fell Pony
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall writes about the Cumbrian fell pony for Granta 142: Animalia.
American Maniac
Rafael Frumkin
‘I would peel wrappers off sandwiches, remove noodles from their boxes, fry up meat before any authorities had the chance to track me and my bounty down.’
Exquisite Corpse
Frances Stonor Saunders
‘Europe awoke to a freezing post-war dawn. The winter of 1947 was the worst ever recorded.’
The Agony and Ecstasy of Escape
Will Boast
Will Boast on how Bernini's Apollo and Daphne helped him write his latest novel
Broken Animals
Britta Jaschinski
‘These bored, frustrated and hungry animals appear as reluctant figures in some unsolvable puzzle, or as victims of a grand experiment whose original purpose is lost in time.’
Slaughterhouse
Arnon Grunberg
‘I wonder whether there’s a real moral difference between killing an animal and killing a human being.’ Translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.
On Coyotes
Diane Cook
‘There is something about the presence of coyotes that makes any place feel wilder than it is.’
A Moveable Beast
Helge Skodvin & Ned Beauman
‘Taxidermy offers animals both a second life and a second harassment by the Anthropocene.’ Ned Beauman introduces the photography of Helge Skodvin.
