Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay How do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame—our taboo desires and our grief. In landscapes as diverse as Salamanca’s cobbled streets, the Mekong River’s floating markets, Fire Island’s windswept beaches, Nashville’s honky-tonks, an...