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40th Anniversary Issue Issue - Orion Magazine
WEBThe Summer of 2022 marks Orion’s 40th anniversary, which means our Summer issue this year is something entirely new: The Name of Time: 40 Origin Stories for the Anthropocene. This issue aims to answer one question: when did the Anthropocene—the age of time defined by man’s imprint on planet Earth—begin? We posed that prompt to 40 ...
Spring 2024 Issue - Orion Magazine
WEBIn this issue of Orion, we chart a life punctuated by rituals—from childbirth to coming of age to marriage to burial—all written in the material of nature: leaves, flowers, fire, water, food, seeds, and soil.And what emerges from this study—which touches upon Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shintoism, Yoruba, and more—is a sense that ritual, for ...
The 10 Orion Stories You Loved Most in 2022 - Orion Magazine
WEBBy Orion Staff. December 13, 2022. 2022 marked Orion ’s 40th year in storytelling, and it was our most-read year online yet. From mushroom shrouds and 90210 to interviews with some of the biggest names in publishing, our readers had adventurous taste. These are the 10 stories you loved most this year. Gift subscriptions are now 20% off.
Spring 2022 Issue - Orion Magazine
WEBDaisy Hildyard delves into relationality and adaptability, the interdependencies of our lives from nursing homes to glaciers in “Taking Care.”. Enjoy fiction by Omar El Akkad, columns by Moeko Fujii, Meera Subramanian, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, poetry, and …
Summer 2023 Issue - Orion Magazine
WEBIt’s a new take on old cautionary tales. In our Summer 2023 issue, The Deep Dark Burning Woods: Fairytales for the Climate Crisis, we explore the ecology of this ancient storytelling tradition, one rife with lessons, warnings, and hope.Inside: Ken Liu constructs a fairytale with the help of an unlikely sidekick: AI.; Anne Frank is a warrior princess in Kate Bernheimer’s close reading of ...
The 10 Most-Read Orion Stories in 2023 - Orion Magazine
WEBDec 27, 2023 · In the year of Oppenheimer, your mind was on radiation (two stories below favor the topic!), and fiction, science, and the story behind a delightful board game also moonlight on this list. As we bring 2023 to a close, add these ten pieces to your reading pile.
Orion Magazine - The Most-Read Orion Articles of 2021
WEBA s we wrap up 2021, take a look at the most-read Orion articles available online. This year, our web-only content had its highest readership ever, so we’ve included our top ten print features and web exclusive articles.Subscribe to Orion today. All holiday gift subscriptions are 20% off through January 2022.
Spring 2021 Issue - Orion Magazine
WEBSpring 2021. IN THIS ISSUE, we peer into the ways in which humans depict nature. In “Lifelike,” Ella Frances Sanders shares illustrated musings on the essence of landscape. Emily Raboteau takes us on a bird walk through Harlem in “Spark Bird.”. Issac Yuen offers a retrospective on the ecological imagination of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.
Winter 2022 Issue - Orion Magazine
WEBThe world is full of tinier ones, each with its own set of rules, cultures, natural ways. Orion‘s Winter 2022 issue, Microcosms: Reading the miniature worlds around us, tells the story of these tiny habitats.In this issue: Ilya Kaminsky curates a portfolio of Ukranian writers reflecting on the small ways in which the war has changed the landscape. ...