January/February 2010
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Feature
Spectral Light
by Amy Irvine
When the boundaries between predator and prey, wild and tame, black and white, become blurred.
Feature
Digging In
by Hank Lentfer Photographs by Amira Fritz
Places to go after you die and various ways of getting there.
Feature
The Trail
by Barry Lopez
A very short story, written to underscore the moral obligation of practicing restraint.
Feature
Touched by Fire
Photographs and text by Martin d'Orgeval
Conflagration strikes a citadel of natural history, but a sense of wonder prevails.
Feature
Bernardo's Corrido
by Alberto Álvaro Ríos
In this story, Bernardo was just a dog in a town that was just a town -- until he became something more.
Feature
A Conjoined Fate
by Hugh Raffles
Art by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
A painter of insects discovers gruesome truths about hte effects of low-level radiation emissions from nuclear power plants.
Feature
Tending the Garden of Technology
by Andrew Lawler
In which the founder of Wired magazine suggests that technology is a product of evolution, and human culture is a product of technology.
Will be published on this website on January 5, 2010.
Sacred & Mundane
Sacred & Mundane
In this regular department, some short takes:
"The Pent-Up Pup," by Lou Bendrick
"Geese Police," by Rachel Graves (will be published online February 4)
"Let's Go Outside, Sort Of," by David Lukas
"The Pestival," by Pete May
Coda
The Grain of the Universe
by Lawrence W. Cheek
"A sailboat is the rules of physics made tangible."
Outside In
The Tips of Your Fingers
by Jay Griffiths
State-sponsored surveillance is a crime against individualism, creativity, and beauty.
Will be published on the website on January 21.
Upping the Stakes
50 Simple Ways to Get Off
by Derrick Jensen
A kind of love affair that won't break hearts, but might save species. With AUDIO.
Media & The Arts
Zeitgeist of Doom
Reviewed by Benjamin Percy
What the movie adaptation of The Road says about a culture that craves such cinematic experiences.
Reviews
Eating Animals
Tears of Mermaids
Black Nature
The Year of the Flood
Down to the Wire
Effigies
A Sea Change
Poetry
All Wet and Shine by Cynthia Huntington
Correcting the Landscape by Elizabeth Bradfield
After Reading Juarroz by Andrea Cohen
Days in Paradise by Michael Collier
