Site fidelity—the act of returning to the same locations over and over again—has been observed in a number of species: bats, salmon, sometimes people.
Kelly McMasters on finding the way home.
The climate crisis is forcing us to reimagine our houses, our meals, our roads, our decisions to have kids. What about our love?
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"Timekeeping is not neutral or natural," says writer and artist Éireann Lorsung in this interview. "Timekeeping was central to modernity and to the spread of imperialism, capitalism, and all the kinds of dominance and hierarchy."
Something to think about as the work week begins anew...
“Water, and the bodies within it, possess a majesty, one before which I am irrelevant.”
Four queer writers—Lars Horn, Sabrina Imbler, Lulu Miller and Joseph Osmundson—sat down to discuss for Orion the unifying theme that binds each of their separate books together: fish.
Does your hometown have a claim to fame? For Erin Somers, that hometown hero is Pat Conroy. Somers examines his writing, and the South Carolina he portrays—and interrogates her own feelings about the place, too.
"Soon, her smell was lifeline, lasso, leash."
On scent and love.
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How do we come to terms with once-wild land that’s been developed, industrialized, pillaged? Trebbe Johnson works it out in this piece from the Orion archive.
With a temporary wage system expiring this summer, California’s goatherds are in jeopardy when they’re needed most. For our Spring issue on labor, Dan Hass writes about the prevention work that goats—and their immigrant herders—do to keep fire seasons safer.
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Is Gary Paul Nabhan a modern-day wizard of the arid wilderness? Read this latest edition of the Orion Questionnaire and decide for yourself 🧙
A conversation about finding community in the aquatic
A conversation about how we count, and what we see
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Writers: Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams is running a workshop on the lyric essay for Orion, open now for application. This longtime Orion contributor has written some of our favorite Orion essays, and now she's here to offer you time to learn, generate, connect, and create. Deadline to apply is June 20.
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What scent can show us about the complexities of love
The Course: Bel Canto: Writing the Lyric Essay The term limit implies a boundary that cannot be breached, but deep in its etymology, the word bends and bows.
