audio
Brenda Peterson Reads “Wolf Music”
Did you know that when wolves howl, they harmonize with one another? Or that if a human imitates a howl, nearby wolves will modulate their voices and chime in? Listen to Continue reading
Multimedia
audio
Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Language of Animacy
In the English language, we reserve the pronouns of personhood for humans—”he,” “she,” “they”—and not for animals, plants, and landscapes. Yet in many of America’s indigenous languages, such barriers are dissolved, Continue reading
video
A Drive Through Ireland’s Nephin Beg
The photographs accompanying Jeremy Miller’s “Two Kinds of Wilderness” (published in the March/April 2017 issue of Orion) are drawn from Niamh O’Malley’s Nephin, a silent fine-art film made in 2014 and shot Continue reading
audio
Paul Kingsnorth on the Story of Civilization
Between globalization, technological advance, and ecological crisis, humans are living through a time of nearly unprecedented change. For centuries, many of us have told a particular story about the nature and direction Continue reading
AUDIO
Melanie Rae Thon Reads “In the Exclusion Zone”
Memory of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, thirty years ago, is still resonant—but its aftermath in the Ukrainian countryside continues to shape the physical earth. Listen to author Melanie Rae Thon Continue reading