Mourning Songs Are Love Songs
This essay is excerpted from Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World. I PICKED BLACK RASPBERRIES FOR GLEN when he was dying of cancer on a cot in his Continue reading
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James Cameron’s Avatar has an Anthropocene Problem
AVATAR — THE GLITTERING 2009 smash hit filled with crude metaphors and flashy action sequences — follows its hero, Jake Sully, on a journey from military man enmeshed in technology to Continue reading
The Age of Dominion
Orion Magazine · John Biewen Discusses ‘The Age of Dominion’ Editor’s note: John Biewen discussed his thought process behind ‘The Age of Dominion’ in the exclusive minisode above. In the beginning, Continue reading
The Patrescene
We crawled naked from the caves, staggered in from the hunts, to find someone had planted a seed. Our hands, stained with charcoal, ocher. Bodies spent, but swirling with beasts we’d Continue reading
The Age of the Orange
It’s 1434. A merchant and his wife pose for a double portrait. Nearby, four oranges glow from their windowsill. The merchant is an Italian in Flanders, dealing in cloth and tapestries. Continue reading