November/December 2010
Features
Feature
There Are Things Awry Here
by Lia Purpura
In which the author attempts to access narratives of place that have been overwritten by strip malls.
Also available: audio extra of the author reading this article.
Feature
Relocating Newtok
by Mark Dowie Photographs by Brian Adams
For a Yup'ik village situated on an eroding coastline, it's move it or lose it.
Feature
The Gulf Between Us
by Terry Tempest Williams Photographs by J Henry Fair
Oil spill stories from the Gulf Coast that underscore one thing: this moment belongs to us all.
Accompanied by an audio slide show including extra images, narrated by photographer J Henry Fair.
Feature
World Under Glass
Photographs by Dana Fritz
A candid look at the world's largest indoor landscapes.
Feature
Halo of Dust
by Teddy Macker
An interlude of awe, courtesy of Saint Francis of Assisi
Feature
Rearview
Photographs by Sylvia Plachy
Lingering scenes of the Gulf disaster, captured in between press conferences.
Feature
Field Books
Art by Hara Woltz; text by Erik Reece
Complicating the boundaries between art and science, image and text.
Feature
House of Mirrors
by Andrew Yale
A short story concerning a time when we worked with murderers, tattooing on their skin the intricate shapes of newly extinct species.
Columns
Small Change
Testing Poorly
by Bill McKibben
Pop quiz: Is climate change a.) an ideological perspective or b.) a physical fact?
Upping the Stakes
Mutual Aid
by Derrick Jensen
Stemming the sixth great extinction, one egg sac at a time.
Departments
The Place Where You Live
The Place Where You Live
In this department of the magazine, we offer a space for people to exercise their sixth sense and tell us about their place, their connection to it, its history and future and imaginary life, in words and pictures. It's an ongoing web feature as well. In this issue: Alvida Falke on Oslo, Norway; Elizabeth Enslin on Flora, Oregon; and Frank Gallagher on Bayonne, New Jersey.
Media & The Arts
Hispano Poetics
by Rubén Martínez
Beauty is something we project onto a landscape, though for many it is a judgment of luxury.
Coda
Wild Ginger
by Jane Hirshfield
"The journey from ignorance to seeing is made by borrowing others' eyes. ..."
Reviews
In Motion, by Tony Hiss
The Wilding, by Benjamin Percy
In the Empire of Ice, by Gretel Ehrlich
Family of Fallen Leaves, Edited by Charles Waugh and Huy Lien
World Enough, by Maureen N. McLane
Mariposa Road, by Robert Michael Pyle
Poetry
Valediction, by Joseph Spece
Ode to the Fish, by Ellen Bass
When the Time's Toxins, by Christian Wiman
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