Birdies Of America | Lucy Ellman | Baffler | 13th June 2016

Eccentric, discursive, lyrical, PG-rated essay which begins by considering the sex lives of birds, proceeds to compare certain birds with certain politicians, and somehow ends up as an appreciation of Katherine Hepburn in At Golden Pond. “You don’t see marauding gangs of male pigeons leaving behind them distraught female pigeons with bent feathers and broken wings. In pigeon society, it’s clearly female passion that counts, not male, and flirtatious male pigeons seem resigned to this”