| Sponsored by Reading Rhythms In our February 12 issue, Ian Frazier helpfully dispenses with a durable riddle: “According to people knowledgeable about chickens, the egg came first.” With that matter settled, he proceeds to tell the story of modern chickens, which as recently as 1940 barely featured in the average diet but are now “the most populous terrestrial vertebrate”—comprising “70 percent of all birds by weight” and “45 percent of all the meat that Americans eat.” Frazier surveys the history of poultry, from their ancestor the red jungle fowl to “a craze called Hen Fever” that swept Boston in the nineteenth century to the contemporary fashion for raising backyard chickens and finally to the industrial farm, “a Dantean hellscape.” Below, alongside Frazier’s essay, are five articles from our archives about birds. Ian Frazier |
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Gertrude Awakening
| Today in The New York Review of Books: Hermione Lee weighs Gertrude Stein’s life and afterlife; Adam Kirsch reads a novel about three generations of German Jewish life; Beatrice Radden Keefe gets Gothic mania; a poem by Ben Lerner; and, from the archives, William H. Gass goes long on Gertrude Stein. Hermione Lee |
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