In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane. Author Maria Popova is the questing mind behind The Marginalian, a public record of her ... The post Ma...
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“. . . It was harder work than they Had imagined, this silly sacrifice, but they finished the job…” —Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “Song” THE DOMESTIC RABBIT comes in roughly sixty ... ...
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The writer Lydia Millet is often described in reviews as “funny,” her wit “devastating.” Both are true, and I’ll add that like a lot of funny people, her humor is born ... The post N...
https://orionmagazine.org/article/lydia-millet-writer-interview-2024/
HORSES AND CHILDREN have this much in common: they are moody, prone to biting, and difficult to control. As a little girl, I too was feral, rough, and rowdy; I too hated ... The post Kentucky...
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EARLY ON IN THE winter of 1969–70, I was driving the great environmental prophet Barry Commoner from a small airport to my small college, where he was to speak to our student ... The post C...
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“Atem nitzavim hayom—You are standing this day, all of you, before the Lord your G-d . . .” ASCENDING THE MAROON-CARPETED steps, I took a deep, steadying breath. I’d swapped my baby ...
https://orionmagazine.org/article/jewish-traditions-heritage-climate-change/
OUTSIDE THE GTB Nagar metro station in North Delhi is a dense bustle typical of mornings in the city. Hundreds of people brush past one another at the crossroads; women stand ... The post Stal...
https://orionmagazine.org/article/north-delhi-food-stall-economy/
ABOUT TWO EIFFEL TOWERS deep in the Pacific Ocean, barreleye fish hang almost motionless in the dark, like holiday decorations. Books, books! Your father tells me you are reading too ... Th...
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GRACE ALVAREZ SESMA HAS always been a dreamer. But this night was different. “We were a very humble family,” she says of her upbringing in the Mexicali barrio of Colonia Pro-Hogar. ... The...
https://orionmagazine.org/article/curanderismo-traditional-healing-practice/
OUR CURRENT ISSUE features the work of Harmonia Rosales, an Afro-Cuban artist whose gilded aesthetic, floral corners, and dark bodies imagine a Renaissance of diaspora. Creating iconic panels of...
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