“Mandala with Bones, Teeth, and Quail Egg,”
2010 Photograph by Kristen Zellmer
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November/December 2012
Features
Feature
What Hangs on Trees
By Glenis Redmond
In the shadow of a tainted history, a poet struggles to write in the pastoral tradition. Web audio extra: author reads this essay aloud.
Feature
State of the Species
By Charles C. Mann
Will the unprecedented success of Homo sapiens lead to an unavoidable downfall? Web audio extra: author interview.
Feature
Brant’s Requiem
By David Gessner
He spent his whole life observing nature and scribbling down notes about it, and now he couldn’t read a word of it.
Feature
Imprinted
Photographs by Noah Wilson
A visual study of desecrated places tells an age-old story about humanity.
Feature
Gaze Even Here
By Trebbe Johnson
Finding beauty and wonder amid ecological ruin can be an exercise in salvation.
Feature
The Last Farmers of Dakar
By Madeleine Bair
As an African city grows, it is devouring its own source of sustenance.
Feature
Where Creation Began
Photographs by Ami Vitale, Text by M. Sanjayan
Dene teens take to the Thelon River in search of their identity and their future.
Columns
Outside In
The Fisher King
By Jay Griffiths
Blindly pursuing the holy grail of profit is bringing us oceans of misery.
Small Change
Which Side Are You On?
By Bill McKibben
To stop oil companies from wrecking the planet, we’ve got to jettison their stock.
Upping the Stakes
A Frog in Every Pot
By Derrick Jensen
How the allegory of the boiling frog gets it all wrong.
Departments
From the Editors
From the Publisher
M.G.H. Gilliam
Orion’s publisher of thirty years lays out the vision he sustained and his hope, upon his retirement, that the magazine continues to make the world a kinder place. Web extra: editors out loud.
The Place Where You Live
The Place Where You Live
A print and web feature of Orion
Media & The Arts
Feed the Hunger
By David Sobel
Thoughts on the incredible popularity of dystopian young adult fiction.
Coda
The Moment’s Meditation
Jason Anthony
Reviews
The Race for What’s Left, by Michael T. Klare
Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World, by Sabina Berman, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman
Empire of Shadows, by George Black
Full Body Burden, by Kristen Iversen
Plume, by Kathleen Flenniken
The Rime of the Modern Mariner, by Nick Hayes
Poetry
Reasons to Be Happy, by Tony Hoagland
Salt Water Ducks, by Cleopatra Mathis
Pilgrim, memory and sea are boundless, by Joseph Spece
Romance, by Pattiann Rogers
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