Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties

Suzanne Roberts

How do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame—our taboo desires and our...

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Opening Credits

1/27/2025

Death

1/27/2025

The Essay Determines How It Will Begin

1/27/2025

The Grief Scale

1/27/2025

Eight Hours

1/27/2025

The Same Story

1/27/2025

Becoming Bird

1/27/2025

A Kiss for the Dying

1/27/2025

Bone & Skin

1/27/2025

Wearing Her Eye Shadow

1/27/2025

A Love Letter to My Hometown after the Shooting

1/27/2025

The Red Canoe

1/27/2025

Traveling with Ghosts

1/27/2025

Friending the Dead

1/27/2025

Keep Your Numbers Down

1/27/2025

In Love with the World

1/27/2025

Sportfucking

1/27/2025

This Far from Desire

1/27/2025

Traveling Alone

1/27/2025

Winter Travel

1/27/2025

The Hungry Bride

1/27/2025

Breaking the Codes

1/27/2025

My Mother's Daughter

1/27/2025

Funerals, Safety Pins, and Flaming Saddles

1/27/2025

The Good-Time Girl

1/27/2025

What She Must Do

1/27/2025

Animal Bodies

1/27/2025

The Queen of the Amazon

1/27/2025

A True Story About Jealousy

1/27/2025

The Last Goodbye

1/27/2025

Rites of Passage

1/27/2025

Traveling with the Dead

1/27/2025

The Disappearing Act

1/27/2025

Honky-Tonk Woman

1/27/2025

Auntie Suzanne

1/27/2025

The Danger Scale

1/27/2025

Words Etched into Skin

1/27/2025

Mother Keeps Daddy on the Shelf

1/27/2025

Ways to Speak the Unspeakable

1/27/2025

Dreaming in the Time of Wildfire

1/27/2025

Ending Credits

1/27/2025