A new story from Our Island of Epidemics appears in this month’s Hobart web issue. It’s called, “Stop Thinking You Own the Forest.” There are also stories by Sara Bohannon, Brian Allen Carr, and Travis Kurowski, as well as a piece on the World Cup by Karl Taro Greenfeld and an interview with Andrew Ervin.

Here’s an excerpt: “A lot of the epidemics were like the epidemic of talking to animals: kind of nice.”

Thanks to Jensen Beach and Aaron Burch.