Artist Shaun Tan Makes the Familiar Strange
Sometimes it’s disappointing to meet an artist you truly admire but meeting my fellow panelist Shaun Tan at the Melbourne Writers Festival in 2017 only fed my admiration. No one evokes Continue reading
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Encounters with Spirit: An Interview with Sandra Cisneros
Manuel Muñoz: Your new piece in Orion, “The Beautiful Unforeseen,” is a very complex essay. It starts in Mexico on a trip that you took with your parents when you were Continue reading
The Human Costs of Environmental Extraction
You may know Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton from her wildly popular, pioneering web comic Hark! A Vagrant, but before that success, she was another young person trying to pay off her Continue reading
Women on the Road: Rewriting Travel in Poetry and Photographs
For a lot of its history, the “road trip” has conjured predominantly white, straight, masculine images (see literature from Homer to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Jack Kerouac), but of course, that’s Continue reading
Seeing the Future
This interview is from a discussion at Elliot Bay Book Company, edited for concision. Jon Raymond: Your book (Believers) is an amazing series of portraits of people who are finding practical Continue reading