Review: Christopher Benfey on hunting in America

Christopher Benfey, a cultural critic who has written about Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, and much else in the American past and present, considers Philip Dray’s new history of hunting in America.

Thomas Eakins, “Pushing for Rail” (1874), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.

The museum’s caption tells us that Eak…