The Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America

Field notes from an age of extinction, tracking the ever-shifting meaning of America's animals throughout history to understand the current moment

Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter's world overflow with animals-butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls-while the actual world she's inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction. Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America's endangered animals will survive onl...