How Animals Perceive the World
Every creature lives within its own sensory bubble, but only humans have the capacity to appreciate the experiences of other species. What we’ve learned is astounding.
July/August 2022
In This Issue
How animals perceive the world, a return to Chagos, Steve Bannon, and a mad hunt for Civil War gold. Plus Jack White, how the U.S. has no nuclear strategy, dad rage, Ulysses at 100, one family’s doll test, downsides of beach resorts, and more.
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Features
Chris Buck for The Atlantic American Rasputin
Steve Bannon is still scheming. And he’s still a threat to democracy.
Nagelfar AB / Thomas Mennerdahl They Bent to Their Knees and Kissed the Sand
Half a century ago, the British government forcibly removed 2,000 people from a remote string of islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean. They’ve never stopped struggling to return.
Erik Carter A Lost Trove of Civil War Gold, an FBI Excavation, and Some Very Angry Treasure Hunters
“I’m going to find out what the hell the FBI did and I’m going to expose it to the world.”
Erik Tanner for The Atlantic The Vindication of Jack White
An obsessive protector of rock’s past could hold the key to its future.
Dispatches
Danielle Del Plato We Have No Nuclear Strategy
The U.S. can’t keep ignoring the threat these weapons pose.
Gordon Parks / Courtesy of the Gordon Parks Foundation My Daughter’s White Doll
Was I right to worry?
Culture & Critics
Oliver Munday The Book That Never Stops Changing
What I’ve learned about Dublin, and myself, in a lifetime of reading Ulysses
María Jesús Contreras Beware the Luxury Beach Resort
These ostensible paradises have a dark side.
Jamiel Law White Author, Black Paragons
When writing across cultural divides flattens characters
Pablo Delcan and Río Delcan La Rocca Why Is Dad So Mad?
A father dares to explore his rage.
Departments
Katie Martin The Commons: Should We Blame Social Media for Society’s Divisions?
Readers respond to stories in our May 2022 issue.
Tim Lahan An Ode to My Thesaurus
Truly an essential, indispensable, necessitous volume
Poetry
Gabriela Pesqueira
