Slowly, Slowly, ‘Darwin’s Finches of the Snail World’ Return From Near Extinction

In Patricia Highsmith’s unnerving 1964 short story “The Snail-Watcher,” a broker’s quiet fascination with breeding garden snails curdles into a terrifying biological reckoning that ends with him entombed by his own neglected and ever-multiplying subj… [3087 chars]

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