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Book Notes
Welcome to a New Literary Magazine, The Common
There’s always something exciting about a Volume 1, Number 1, especially one so beautiful as…
Insectopedia: Winner of the 2011 Orion Book Award
Insects fascinate, repulse, and transfix us all at once. Hugh Raffles’s Insectopedia…
About a Mountain is a 2011 Orion Book Award Finalist
John D’Agata’s exploration of Yucca Mountain—maybe the most studied rock on…
The Heart of the Monster
Some of the world’s largest oil companies are transporting gargantuan mining equipment to the…
The View from Lazy Point
We hope you’ll be hearing a lot about (occasional Orion contributor) Carl Safina’s…
Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
When the first issue of Orion appeared, in the summer of 1982, the magazine ran with an editorial…
Your Green Abode: a Practical Guide to a Sustainable Home
We are pleased to note the publication of this book, by Orion‘s former Managing Editor…
Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Humankind
Reading anything by Gene Logsdon, the “contrary farmer” as he is best known, is always…
Poetry Round-up
Orion readers and poetry fans may be interested to know about these new and recent books by…
The Charles Bowden Reader
If the best writing doesn’t flinch, reading Charles Bowden is to have your eyelids pulled back.…
