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The Sounds of Silence
WHEN I WAS a sixteen-year-old naturalist in training, we were instructed to sit in the forest and wait for the return of something called “the baseline symphony.” The baseline symphony was Continue reading
An Invisible Narrative
“Could it be that inherited objects can be outlines of our incomplete secrets?” Continue reading
Notes from the Hospital
Just a few months after I finished writing an essay about hospitals for Orion, I was sorting through boxes in my mother’s garage. I found a series of pocket-size spiral-bound notebooks Continue reading
Cold War Game Theory
In early April 1990, I arrived in Bucharest to write an environmental story for a magazine based in Paris, where I was living at the time. A catastrophe had been unfolding Continue reading
Who’s Safe in the Woods? An Interview with Kathryn Miles, author of Trailed
In May 1996, Julie Williams and Lollie Winans were brutally murdered while backpacking in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, just off the Appalachian Trail. Twenty years later, journalist Kathryn Miles began looking Continue reading