The Grand Temptation

By Lulu Miller
Finding Faith in the Taxonomy of Fish
<i>Balistes maculatus, The long File-Fish</i>. (Courtesy Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library, Digital Collections.)
Balistes maculatus, The long File-Fish. (Courtesy Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library, Digital Collections.)

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Issue: Spring 2020 / Volume 96/1
Published: March 2, 2020
Lulu Miller

Lulu Miller is a Peabody award-winning journalist for National Public Radio. She is the cofounder of NPR’s Invisibilia and a frequent contributor to Radiolab. Her first book, Why Fish Don’t Exist, a nonfiction adventure story about obsession and loss, has just been published by Simon & Schuster. 

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