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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
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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
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Too Fantastical: A Look at Lane Smith’s Imaginary Creatures
It would take a very advanced calculator to tally up the hours my children have spent absorbed in the work of Lane Smith, whose smudgecore aesthetic defies the idea that an Continue reading
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Searching for Home in (Very) Rural Amercia
BEFORE IRANIAN AMERICAN cartoonist Navied Mahdavian moved with his wife and dog from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho, he had never fished, gardened, hiked, hunted, or lived Continue reading
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A Glossary of Wildfire Terms You Need to Know
Wildland firefighting is full of jargon that can be tough to decipher (a Forest Service glossary of wildfire terms runs nearly two hundred pages), but critical for nearby residents to know Continue reading