“Zebra #2” from the Affinity series Photograph by Brad Wilson
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January/February 2013
Features
Feature
Pandora’s Boxes
Heather Millar
We barely know how nanoparticles work, but they’re already lurking in our socks and our toothpaste.
Feature
Dark Ecology
Paul Kingsnorth
Technology isn’t likely to save us, but neither is environmentalism.
Feature
Animals That Saw Me
Photographs by Ed Panar
They’re everywhere, watching your every move. Click here for picture essay.
Feature
The New Creationism
Erik Reece
If all life on earth evolved from a single substance, why not call that substance God? Web audio extra: author interview.
Feature
Cyclopedia of an Expedition Around Svalbard
Rebecca Solnit
Representation meets reality on a journey through the Arctic.
Feature
Destroy All Monsters
Bennett Sims
A dream of a movie projected onto a windowpane implicates innocent fauna in a grand scheme of horror.
Columns
Each Other—Where We Are
The Silence of Science
Sandra Steingraber
Scientists may have the facts, but people of faith have the gumption.
The Wastelander
Ghosts of America
Luis Alberto Urrea
Hanging with real live phantoms in the shadow of the new dust bowl. Web audio extra: the author reads this column aloud.
Upping the Stakes
Culture of Plunder
Derrick Jensen
Behind most success stories are narratives of profound suffering.
Departments
Preamble
From the Editor-in-Chief
H. Emerson Blake
If Hurricane Katrina told us climate change was coming, then Hurricane Sandy announced that it is here. It's time for a moral conversation about how to plan for a better future, not just how to construct floodgates for the wealthy. Web extra: editors out loud.
The Place Where You Live
The Place Where You Live
A print and web feature of Orion
Viewfinder
Photograph by Robert Dawson
Media & The Arts
The Piccolo and the Pocket Grouse
Eric Wagner
Inside the dynamic art of animal musicology.
Reviews
Detroit City Is the Place to Be, by Mark Binelli
Air, by William Bryant Logan
Devil’s Tango, by Cecile Pineda
A World in One Cubic Foot, by David Liittschwager
The Old Ways, by Robert Macfarlane
Magnificence, by Lydia Millet
Poetry
Austere Finale, by Mark Svenvold
Coriolis, by Katherine Larson
The Fog Town School of Thought, by Maurice Manning
Trapped, by Jean Monahan
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