In return, they laid more eggs than I could eat. In summer when insects were their chief diet—ants being plentiful, and ...

It is with deep pride and great excitement that I write to share some truly wonderful news with you: Orion has officially ...

Join Orion magazine, Radiolab, and Lambda Literary to celebrate the launch of Orion’s spring 2025 issue, Queer Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity. This virtual event will feature two contributors ...

The 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 ...

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 ...

In this issue, Paul Kingsnorth explores the spiritual dimensions of ecological crisis, Leath Tonino reflects on the nonhuman lives lost on America’s roadways, and Molly Maqpee Lane and Nathaniel ...

In this issue, Sherri Mitchell explores how stories tell us who we are; Benjamin Rachlin investigates the reality that climate adaptation may require new ways of thinking about medicine; Jessica Cook ...

Restorative Ecosystems: Life and death in the wilderness of the hospital IN THIS ISSUE, traverse life and death in the wilderness of the hospital, examining the restorative nature of our bodies and ...

IN THIS ISSUE, we gather a selection of writers and artists whose experiences broaden our understanding of sickness and disability, to foster a conversation among them about how the body informs our ...

IN THIS ISSUE, Holly Haworth peels back the world’s skin in “Bodies of Knowledge.” Katrina Vandenberg explores how a flower became our companion in the dark. In “Bayou Sutra,” Emily Sekine finds home ...

Brian Doyle (1956-2017) was the longtime editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, in Oregon. He was the author of six collections of essays, two nonfiction books, two collections of ...

“HERE’S MY THEORY,” I say, sitting on my heels in between rows of cabbage seedlings. “Time isn’t shaped like a line. It moves in one direction, maybe, but that’s all the line has going for it. I think ...