Bones

In this special BONES-theme issue, we bring you stories about Jell-O, wishbones, conceptual art, bone talismans, and the historic art of scrimshaw. Find out how a heron wing fragment could help you, and why animals evolved to have bones at all.

• Metaphorical Bones — Par Sasha Wizansky

  Relics and artifacts in David Ireland’s house

• Meat Up

  Bones!
  True stories from Meatpaper readers

• Needle to the Bone — Par Colleen Hubbard

  Scrimshaw, from seas to suburbs

• The Communion of Saints — Par Patricia Maloney

  Gordon Matta-Clark’s Bones Meal

• Lucky Bones — Par Rachel Khong & Brian McMullen

  A handy chart of bone talismans

• Nourishing Traditions, the cookbook and the culture — Par Margaret Jones

• Burying a Cow’s Horn for Better Wine — Par Maria Gould

• The Bone Whisperers — Par Nathanael Johnson

  Archaeologists look for past lives in food scraps

• The Fury Of Beautiful Bones — Par Anne Sexton

• Lifestyle options for the squishy — Par Heather Smith

  Your New Skeleton

• Containers of Light and Memory — Par Victoria Gannon

  The life and death of analog

• From Hide Hunters to Bone Pickers — Par Steven Rinella

  An excerpt from American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

• Watch That Wobble : A short history of Jell-O — Par Yolanda de Montijo

• When You Wish Upon a Bone — Par Sabrina Jaszi

  Investigating the peculiar pull of wishbones