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Lockdown Vocabulary
This short essay is a follow-up by author Shauna Laurel Jones, whose feature article “Of Birds and Barley” is included in the Summer 2020 issue (available in print only). Meanwhile Continue reading
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When Pollution Meets a Pandemic
The following photo essay includes the words and photographs of Italian photojournalist Marco Sacco. Many people visualize Kathmandu, Nepal, as a sort of ethereal entrance to the Himalaya, but few Continue reading
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Views on a Pandemic
This essay is a follow-up to the author’s “Views of the Apocalypse,” a feature in the Winter 2019 issue. CRISES LIKE STORMS, OR HEARTBREAK, OR ILLNESS, have a way of Continue reading
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Together Apart: Letters from Isolation
Together Apart is a new Orion web series of letters from isolation. Every week under lockdown, we eavesdrop on curious pairs of authors, scientists, and artists, listening in on their emails, texts, Continue reading
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Becoming Wild During a Pandemic
In a time of unprecedented pandemic, it’s reassuring to remember that many creatures are going about life as they have, that there is normalcy and peace, as always, in the living Continue reading