Stickeen: The Story of a Dog
An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.
An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.
Today, artificial intelligence and information technologies have absorbed many of the questions that were once taken up by theologians and philosophers: the mind’s relationship to the body, the question of free will, the possibility of immortality.
Meghan O’Gieblyn Guardian Aug 2021 20min Permalink
In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?
Ashley Stimpson Longreads Nov 2020 30min Permalink
She wanted to escape her marriage. He wanted to escape his life sentence.
Michael J. Mooney The Atlantic Sep 2020 30min Permalink
When a ring of thieves steals a poet’s beloved dog, one of the world’s most famous women must break her long domestic oppression and discover herself in the process.
Olivia Rutigliano Truly*Adventurous Jan 2020 30min Permalink
In 2007, 47 dogs were rescued from an illegal dogfighting ring organized by NFL quarterback Michael Vick. They could have been euthanized. Instead, they became family pets.
Emily Giambalvo Washington Post Sep 2019 20min Permalink
Can a college sophomore turn WeRateDogs into a puppers empire?
Megan Greenwell Esquire May 2017 20min Permalink
A trip to the Iditarod.
Brian Phillips Grantland Apr 2013 20min Permalink
At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous.
David Ewing Duncan Vanity Fair Aug 2018 20min Permalink
Animal rescue centers have been buying dogs at auction from the very puppy mills they protest. Those dogs are then adopted out in exchange for significant donations,.
Kim Kavin Washington Post Apr 2018 20min Permalink
Wags Lending and the brave new world of of financing in “niches where we’re dealing with emotional borrowers.”
Patrick Clark Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink
A runner and her dog.
Sara Corbett Runner's World Jan 2005 10min Permalink
An attempt to make sense of the dog meat industry in Vietnam, an unregulated maze of black market slaughterhouses, home restaurants, and thieves who are often murdered in the open when caught stealing the family pet.
Calvin Godfrey Roads & Kingdoms Feb 2016 15min Permalink
The mysterious death of a champion Irish setter.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jan 2016 15min Permalink
On America’s combat canines and their handlers.
Michael Paterniti National Geographic Jun 2014 20min Permalink
An adventure on the Beringia, a dog sled race stretching 685 miles over Russia’s frozen tundra.
Julia Phillips The Morning News Nov 2012 25min Permalink
“If I were a bitch, I’d be in love with Biff Truesdale. Biff is perfect. He’s friendly, good-looking, rich, famous, and in excellent physical condition. He almost never drools.”
Susan Orlean New Yorker Feb 1995 15min Permalink
An account of Yukon Quest, Alaska’s grueling, thousand-mile dog sled race.
Eva Holland SB Nation Mar 2013 20min Permalink
Encountering a pack of wild dogs in Manhattan.
Rebecca Skloot New York May 2005 10min Permalink
On a breed at risk.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis New York Times Magazine Nov 2011 25min Permalink
The complex, highly evolved world of Moscow’s subway-riding stray dogs.