Cover Story
Loving Animals to Death
How can we raise them humanely and then butcher them?
by James McWilliams
Articles
What Killed My Sister?
The answer—schizophrenia—only leads to more perplexing questions
by Priscilla Long
The Making of PoBiz Farm
After it became our permanent home, we overfilled it with overloved horses and dogs
by Maxine Kumin
Departments
Editor's Note
Letters
Letter From …
Tuning Up
Commonplace Book
Fiction
Poetry
Works in Progress
Back Talk
Arts
Realism With a Heart
The Dardenne brothers bring an idiosyncratic sympathy to their portrayals of Belgian lowlifes
Richard Locke
Book Essay
Book Reviews
The Bard of Suburbia
John Updike’s obsession with ordinary life made him the writer by whom we came to know ourselves
