Writing by Topic: Animals
On the Vault
- “Adorable Depression-Era Posters Promoting Kindness to Animals” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 11, 2016)
- “Pages from Theodore Roosevelt’s Field Notebooks Record Animals Seen—And Killed” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 14, 2016)
- “Drunkard, Merryboy, Younker. Some 17th-Century Names for Dogs” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 25, 2016)
- “A Depression-Era Zoo Housed Wolves and Three Species of Bears Together. It Didn’t End Well” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 6, 2015)
- “A Lovely 19th-Century Illustrated Book of Japanese Falconry” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 14, 2015)
- “A Beautiful 1930s Sportsman’s Map of American Saltwater Fish” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 22, 2015)
- “Beautiful, Terrible Watercolors of a 19th-Century Whale Hunt, Found in a Ship’s Logbook” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 19, 2014)
- “When Wolf-Killing Was Legal, and Paid Well” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 25, 2014)
- “An Eccentric Millionaire’s 1875 Pork Map of the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 31, 2014)
- “The Government Advice That Scared 750,000 Britons Into Euthanizing Their Pets” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 7, 2014)
- “A Pigeon’s Message From the ‘Lost Battalion'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 27, 2013)
- “First Lady Grace Coolidge Loved Her Raccoon, Rebecca” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 26, 2012)
On Slate's Wild Things blog
- “Crappy Taxidermy Internet Meme Is Really Sort of Sad” (Slate‘s Wild Things blog, April 8, 2014)
- “Bizarre and Colorful Vintage Circus Posters Featuring Animal Performers” (Slate‘s Wild Things blog, February 26, 2014)
- “Should We Destroy Our Ivory Art Out Of Guilt? Prince William Seems to Think So” (Slate‘s Wild Things blog, February 19, 2014)
- “‘Be White To Your Dogs.’ Why People Are So Outraged About A Canadian Survival Story” (Slate‘s Wild Things blog, November 12, 2013)
- “The Best Animal Songs Ever Written: Our Neko Case Playlist” (Slate‘s Wild Things blog, November 1, 2013)
Everywhere Else
- “Show & Tell: 17th-Century Falcon’s Hood” (Mental Floss online, December 18, 2015)
- “The Fantastical Allure of the Space Whale” (Lapham’s Quarterly‘s Roundtable blog, July 18, 2013)
- “Dog Days” (on celebrity sled dogs of the early 20th c) [PDF] (The Crier, 2007)
- “Wild Things” (on the paintings of Walton Ford) [PDF] (The Crier, Fall 2006)
- “Sharksploitation!: Jaws and the Sad Decline of the Shark Movie” (Slate, June 16, 2005)