Matthew Battles presents a series of posts on the human-shaped meanings attached to animal-shaped creatures.
By: Joshua Glenn
Pop-culture mice, 1944–1953
Pop-culture mice, 1934–1943
Pop-culture mice, 1924–1933
Pop-culture mice, 1914–1923
Pop-culture mice of 1904–1913.
What does the mouse mean?
1984–2003: PALIMPSEST FROGS
1964–1983: FREE-SPIRIT FROGS
1934–1963: RAPSCALLION FROGS
1904–1933: BUMPTIOUS FROGS
By: Tom Nealon
An icon’s inner carnivore reawakens.
By: Vanessa Berry
Leathery bills leading the plunge.
By: Charlie Mitchell
Regal on the edge of dying light.
By: Chris Spurgeon
No such thing as a lesser one.
By: Heather Kapplow
You cannot tame us.