What the Ice Asks of Us
I FIRST BECAME ACQUAINTED with the environmental writing of Elizabeth Rush when I was assigned to review her last book, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, an innovative work of creative Continue reading
Author Archives: Kim Schmidt
Little Encounters with the World’s Biggest Mammals
EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD, I have heard the sea in some way or another. The salt wind that wrapped itself around my life from infancy; the distant beat of Continue reading
11 Parts of Your Body Another Animal Invented
Eyes Wherever you are, if you look up and watch a scrap of cloud drift across the sky, you are seeing through the complexity of 600 million years of work. This Continue reading
The Literature of Refugees
Each new Orion issue is focused on a central thesis or theme. For Autumn 2023, that theme is homelessness and displacement. We ask what home looks like in the face of Continue reading
Ross Gay Answers the Orion Questionnaire
In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane. Orion contributing editor Ross Gay is a poet, essayist, professor, and devoted gardener. If you’ve Continue reading