Bill Wasik is the editorial director of the New York Times Magazine. He is the co-author of Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals (Knopf Doubleday, 2024) and Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus (Penguin Random House, 2013), which is a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
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