The New Yorker: "Trailhead" by E.O. Wilson

Ants? When I saw that this week's story was by E.O. Wilson, I figured we were in for something unusual. But ants? Move along, people, nothing here to see.

Actually, this "fiction"—which is really just a dramatization (for want of a better word) of the lifecycle of an ant colony—is an excerpt from Wilson's forthcoming novel, Anthill. (No, I'm not kidding.) So, this is neither terribly interesting, unless you really like insects and happen to know nothing at all about them, nor is it a story.

It...