1961

Desert Wildlife

Edmund C. Jaeger

In 1946, Edmund Jaeger was poking around a canyon in the Chuckwalla Mountains when he found a poorwill wedged in a rock crevice, cold and unresponsive, and it stayed that way for weeks. Nobody thought birds could hibernate. He went…

The Day Of The Owl

Leonardo Sciascia

A man is shot dead boarding a bus in a Sicilian town square in front of forty people, and by the time the carabinieri arrive nobody saw anything. Captain Bellodi, a northerner and a former partisan, actually investigates — which…