CriminalAnimal is a space for web-aware art and criticism about animals, humans, and the stuff in between...The idea of CriminalAnimal evolved from a Graduate Seminar in Art, taught by Lane Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, during the spring of

Call for submissions: Faux HistoriesThe editors invite submissions of critical and/or creative work for the 2nd volume on the theme of "Faux Histories." We seek works of fiction, non-fiction, cultural criticism, artwork, poetry, and pieces that blur genre boundaries. The

During and after college, Freddy had studied the biology of both dolphins and birds, but he had never quite felt biology the way he had since Fredito had been born. That moment in the delivery room, something had cracked and

You email Keith Shore a bearded photo. Keith Shore paints you a 5" x 7" acrylic and ink portrait on an archival Arches Cold-Pressed 140lb archival paper. Keith Shore emails you a scan of the piece for approval. You send

All my life I wanted to be an apple, anchored viscerally in a tradition. But I am an orange - that strange fruit of my Eastern European childhood that was a rare treat around Christmas, sweet and exotic, leaving a

The literary journals I enjoy most are those driven by a particular focus, something that connects every issue and develops into a set of questions or ideas over time. They also tend to be nature-oriented, like Isotope and Ecotone. So

I've heard a man say that ifyou pulled a magnificent frigatebird out of the sky, heldits long, hooked bill, plucked it bare, stripped the meat,then weighedthe feathers against the bones, the scale would tiptoward feather. Do I care if its

In Latvia they have a special museum for those who would like to dive into the now not present world of the Soviet exotics. Every visitor has to wear Soviet Russian prisoners cloths and when enters is being humiliated by

but still a dogwho buries a steaminghot bowl of porridgein summer thinkinghe'll dig it up to warm himin winternot quite smart enough to understandwarm and cold don't stay that way...~ Harry Calhoun @ Yippee

There is a saying that sheepbuilt our churches, but the eyecannot record a happening so gradual.What fossils form as August eveningsdrag over the length of the world...~ Carolyn Guinzo

What Happened To Us These Last Couple Years?, an anthology of the Bush years edited by David Barringer, is now available. There's a terrific lineup of contributors, plus me.Purchase the anthology, and you'll also get a discount on David's other

opens the next chapter in the landscape tradition, addressing contemporary ideas of exploration, population of the wilderness, land usage, environmental politics and the relativity of aesthetic beauty. Badlands comes at this critical time, an era when the world is more

a film by James Marsh

Antarctica*br/>In the least accessible place on the surface of this infested earthA statue of Lenin protrudes from snow,Abandoned camp below him,Face toward Moscow,Endless sky.How far does he see though that peerless clear air?Has news yet reached him of capitalism's chaotic

There are depths even in a householdwhere a whale can live. . . .His warm bulk swims from roomto room, floating by on the stairway,searching the drafts, the coldcurrents of water and liberationHe comes to the surface hungry,sniffs at the

Maitland makes tea and we sit down at a wooden table. She acknowledges straight away the contradiction in being interviewed about the pleasure and profundity of not talking, but says there has been enormous media interest in her book and

I've been thinking and writing about potatoes and climate change a lot lately, but who hasn't? After all, the Potato Association of America calls "Heightened interaction between the PAA and other international potato associations" — like me! — "a critical

For many years I have asked myself, Why do you spend time with other people? but I never really attempted to come up with an answer. I always believed I was asking myself a rhetorical question, but this week I

The "Aquarium" issue of Fuselit is now available for purchase. Their last issue, "Fox," was as beautiful a piece of art (reminded me a bit of the sadly missed Orphan Leaf Review) as it was a good read, and I'm