Wuthering
Expectations

Tortoises, I was going to write something about the tortoises in “The Encantadas.”  I suppose television has made Galápagos tortoises less e...

“The Encantadas” (1954) is a strange hybrid of fiction and travel writing, or strange for writers besides Herman Melville, who had been writ...

Thinking about literary animals, I have wandered into 18th century England, when the poets either had cats, or wrote about them, or both. He...