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The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Raised by Humans” by Christopher Knapp

ByRoss McMeekin

Anyone who has owned a cat has at some point looked on it with envy as it slumbered peacefully through the day. How are they so comfortable in their own skin? So clear in purpose, while we humans struggle so mightily to know who we are and what we should do? “Raised by Humans” (New…

“We licked the dictionary off each other’s faces” : Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal: A Project for Future Children
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“We licked the dictionary off each other’s faces” : Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal: A Project for Future Children

ByJohn Rufo

What’s wrong with being raised by wolves? In Humanimal: A Project for Future Childen, Bhanu Kapil investigates “the true story of Kamala and Amala, two girls found living with wolves in Bengal, India, in 1920” (ix). But unlike a crowd drawn to witness a re-enactment, Kapil’s book instead involves “trying to see it” (17) and…