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Return to Area X - Orion Magazine
WEBJul 30, 2024 · A vast number of critical responses to Acceptance and the Southern Reach books exist, musing on their relationship to subjects as disparate as literary genre, gender, identity, philosophy, espionage, the climate crisis, and environmental ethics. Reading these responses has enriched my thoughts, given me new vantage on the works. But reading …
The Crying Indian - Orion Magazine
WEBNovember/December 2008. January 1, 1970. IF YOU WATCHED television at any point in the seventies, you saw him: America’s most famous Indian. Star of perhaps the best-known public service announcement ever, he was a black-braided, buckskinned, cigar-store native come to life, complete with single feather and stoic frown.
Barreleye Fish: An Abecedarian - Orion Magazine
WEBApr 17, 2024 · Head membrane of the barreleye fish forms a transparent dome of skin over its chartreuse eyes.Inside this dome, a barreleye’s globular eyes can rotate like binoculars and move to better spy prey directly above them. A clear dome like this acts like a shield to protect the barreleye’s eyes from the stinging zap of a jellyfish or a siphonophore.
When the Whales Leave - Orion Magazine
WEBSep 17, 2020 · When the Whales Leave. By Bathsheba Demuth. from. Autumn 2020. September 17, 2020. A YOUNG WOMAN named Nau lives alone on the edge of an Arctic sea, where she falls in love with a whale. The whale, Reu, returns her adoration, and transforms into a man’s body to live with her. “What will we do?”.
The Imagination of the Tiny - Orion Magazine
WEBOct 17, 2023 · THE FIRST RULE OF BORROWING, a father tells his daughter in Mary Norton’s Borrowers, is that “a Borrower must never be seen.”But like in Fight Club, the story is dependent on this rule being broken.And so Arrietty, a girl two and a half inches tall, steps forth onto a boy’s palm and looks at his skin: a landscape, a touch, a stage.
The Vaster Wilds: A Conversation with Lauren Groff
WEBNov 8, 2023 · The character at the center of Lauren Groff’s new novel, The Vaster Wilds, is on the run, and though for a long time we’re not quite sure what from, you can at least measure the trauma by what she’s willing to endure to get away from it: fever, starvation, sleeplessness, nightmares of being sniffed and licked by wild beasts, and generally an …
Speaking of Nature - Orion Magazine
WEBMarch/April 2017. June 12, 2017. A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths beneath rewilding oaks.
The Greatest Nature Essay Ever - Orion Magazine
WEBOctober 30, 2008. . . . WOULD BEGIN WITH an image so startling and lovely and wondrous that you would stop riffling through the rest of the mail, take your jacket off, sit down at the table, adjust your spectacles, tell the dog to lie down, tell the kids to make their own sandwiches for heavenssake, that’s why god gave you hands, and read ...
Interviews with an Octopus - Orion Magazine
WEBInterviews with an Octopus. January 1, 1970. Shortly after Sy Montgomery finished writing “Deep Intellect,” her feature about octopus intelligence in the current issue of Orion, she learned that her subject, Athena, had passed away. Athena’s successor is Octavia, the New England Aquarium’s new Giant Pacific Octopus with whom Sy has ...