Beware the Fairy Host
In Ireland, Halloween (Samhain) is a major temporal hinge—when the year turns from light to dark, and the boundary between the living and dead, the fantastic and the mundane, grows gossamer Continue reading
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Coming of Age in the Climate Crisis
In which Farah Ali (The River, The Town) and Lydia Kiesling (Mobility) discuss how their new coming of age novels are informed by place and their respective upbringings, and how the Continue reading
Ken Burns Answers the Orion Questionnaire
In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane. Acclaimed historical documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has been making lauded films and series for almost Continue reading
Moving Forward, Looking Back
Orion poetry editor Camille T. Dungy spoke with poet Matthew Shenoda about the intersection of culture and ecological landscape, personal and collective grief, the memories that shape us, and his new collection Continue reading
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