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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
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
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
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
In 2012, science writer and Orion contributor David Quammen published Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. The book charts the ecology and spread of “zoonoses,” diseases transmitted between animals Continue reading
