“Dogs are not about something else. Dogs are about dogs.”Dogs have enjoyed a long track record as fiction heroes, photography models, and subjects of scientific curiosity. But they’ve also had an admirable history of inhabiting the spectrum between trope and muse for some of literary history’s greatest talent. The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs, collects such canine-themed gems – fiction, poetry, feature articles, humor, cartoons, cover art, manuscript drafts – from a slew of titans culled from the magazine’s archive, including E.B.White, Maira Kalman, John Updike, Jonathan Lethem, and Roald Dahl. Divided into four sections – Good Dogs, Bad Dogs, Top Dogs, and Underdogs – and spanning such subjects as evolution, domesticity, love, family, obedience, bereavement, language, and more, the lavishly illustrated 400-page tome is an absolute treat from cover to cover. The book is available at the link bellow.
