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Paris is a Museum
March 23, 2017I saw it coming, almost, before it came. I had a few seconds of murky premonition. And then bingo: a gentle sort of mugging—just a team pickpocket play, really, with downfield blocking—which was halfway clever, and nearly worked. Fortunately, I...
Movie Star
January 24, 2017 So we went to the Sundance Film Festival, yes, and a merry and curious time it was. Betsy and I drove down to Park City, Utah, along with two of our dogs--the most needy, the borzois Nick and Stella--on Friday, leaving Harry the...
Borzois in Tuxedos
December 8, 2016 Forty-some years ago, I wrote a short story titled "Walking Out." It's the tale of a boy and a father and a hunting trip gone wrong. I was paying my dues as a struggling young writer at the time, waiting tables, then tending...
Crescent Moon
December 6, 2016. BOHART RANCH, BRIDGER MTS. I wish I had a photo of tonight's waxing crescent moon. Go out and look at it. That's the warm reflected winter luminescence that guided me out of the modest backcountry of the Bridger...
The Latest
October 24, 2016 It’s book-tour season for me again—this time on behalf of "Yellowstone: A Journey Through America’s Wild Heart," my new book (in collaboration with a team of wonderful photographers), which is just out. It’s an expanded version (more...
January 2016: Why Zika Is This Year’s Scary Virus
from National Geographic online Scary new viruses emerge abruptly in our modern world, provoking stark headlines and demands for bold government action—but in most cases the causes are complex and have developed, unnoticed, over years or decades. That’s true again for...
Other Books
THE CHIMP AND THE RIVER: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
SPILLOVER: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction