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The Man Who Made Lonesome George Less Lonely

This story was published as a companion piece to Orion‘s Winter 2023 Love Issue, a tome about devotion. Subscribe here and learn more here. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PACIFIC, the black, Continue reading →

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The Houseplant Black Market

By Jared D. Margulies

IN THE EARLY MONTHS OF the COVID-19 pandemic, at any given hour, you might have found me hunched over and gently tending to a new houseplant as I sheltered in place. Continue reading →

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Beware the Fairy Host

By Natalie Middleton

In Ireland, Halloween (Samhain) is a major temporal hinge—when the year turns from light to dark, and the boundary between the living and dead, the fantastic and the mundane, grows gossamer Continue reading →

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On the left is a photo of a Black woman smiling at the camera. She has long braids and glasses and is standing in front of trees with green leaves. On the right is another Black woman also smiling at the camera. She is sitting on rocks by water, and is wearing a straw hat.

Way Finders and Wild Women

Tiya Miles & Lauret Savoy

In which authors and historians Tiya Miles and Lauret Savoy discuss America’s trailblazing women, race, landscape, memory, the importance of getting girls outdoors, and Tiya’s new book Wild Girls. Lauret Savoy: Continue reading →

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Left: A colorful, active illustration. In the center is a large, old tree with waving branches and roots. The roots spiral and descend loosely around a central textured sphere, within which are shown the words Soils Spirit Forest. From the bottom of the roots grow two dark human arms, colored as the tree bark. They dig into the soil below the tree, with a glowing illumination emerging from the soil and between the hands. Flowers and an amanita muscaria mushroom grow around the tree roots. At the top left of the image, above the tree and somewhat resembling clouds, is shown an old colonial map with names such as ‘New England’ and ‘Nova Scotia’. The map is then obscured by water-color blues, and in the top right, above a vivid burst of bright green tree leaves, flies a vivid blue-orange bird, somewhat resembling a passenger pigeon. The bird wings are open wide, chest blaring, red eye vivid, beak pointing up. Right: Against the backdrop of the textured bark of a tree, a light-skinned woman with buzzed hair on one side and shoulder length wavy hair on the other is standing gently smiling facing the camera directly.

To Remember Amid Dismemberment

By Petra Kuppers

In this interview, we are getting exciting glimpses into the development of a long-term creative environmental project—Orion’s Winter 2021 cover artist Marina ‘Heron’ Tsaplina’s Soils and Spirit, which will premiere in Continue reading →

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The Man Who Made Lonesome George Less Lonely

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The Houseplant Black Market

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Beware the Fairy Host

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Way Finders and Wild Women

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To Remember Amid Dismemberment

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