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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · May 29
COVER REVEAL! It’s here, it’s here, it’s here! Meet Orion’s Summer 2025 issue: THE FUTURE IS FUNGI.

Orion’s 201st issue is now shipped out (or already in your hands!) and it’s all about the strange, rule-bending, mind-altering, awe-inducing world of fungi.

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 14h
“When our stories are lost, we often lose the cultural values required to guide the way to live in balance on Earth.”

On Indigenous oral tradition and the sacred science of sound.
Hearing the Waters - Orion Magazine
Indigenous oral tradition and the sacred science of sound
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 20h
What would motivate you more to change your behaviors to save wildlife: a book about elephants, a book about the wild fauna in your own backyard, or a book about your pet? Would any? Rebecca van Laer sifts through the noise.
Animal Memoirs Gone Wild - Orion Magazine
What we can learn from more domestic forms of intimacy with nature
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 1d
"where did you go, little rag, / shape of black purpose?"

From 'Bat' by Cleopatra Mathis, in Orion, 2009.
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 1d
A weed is simply “a plant in the wrong place.”

On weeds, borders, and belonging.
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Untangling Ourselves Podcast @untangleourselves.bsky.social · 3d
"What if we fundamentally all belong to Earth, if we start from the idea that belonging is a birthright? We have a land that wants us and wants to feed us and hold us, and gravity is going to make sure we don’t float off into space, and that’s so loving." --adrienne marie brown
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 9
Happy Pride! All ecology is queer! At least, so say Amy Ray and adrienne maree brown. Eavesdrop on this conversation from our Spring 2025 issue on queer nature.
All Ecology Is Queer
Nature’s networks, fluidity, and diversity are the keys to our future
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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 2d
This article is sticking to my ribs like a Thanksgiving meal. What is love if not sharing food and watching each other age?
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 2d
In praise of the pumpkins, the sweet potatoes, the squashes—the patron vegetables of soup season, of cold weather, of hard times.
On Cold-Weather Vegetables
Andre Dubus describes the meals between married couples as not mere eating but a “pausing in the march to perform an act together."
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 1d
Our love for whales 🤝 your love for whales

The submission window for our Summer 2026 issue about whales and other cetaceans is open! Guidelines and where to pitch are all at the link below.
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 2d
What piece of fiction has four paragraphs, themes of mystery and despair, and a reference to an iconic horror movie?
The Blob - Orion Magazine
"I like to imagine I was backlit and stoic, even though I was furious and probably crying."
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 2d
In praise of the pumpkins, the sweet potatoes, the squashes—the patron vegetables of soup season, of cold weather, of hard times.
On Cold-Weather Vegetables
Andre Dubus describes the meals between married couples as not mere eating but a “pausing in the march to perform an act together."
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 3d
Thinking about primatology’s trailblazing women today 💭
The Mother of Lemurs - Orion Magazine
Walking in the footsteps of primatology’s trailblazing women
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 3d
Caught ya doomscrolling! Nab one of these books to get yourself off of these apps and into some truly good reading.
12 New(ish) Reading Recommendations
Orion approved books to kick off your fall reading plans
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 3d
After her second husband’s passing, Jane Goodall headed into the forests of Gombe for a little bit of peace. What followed was “a flash of ‘outsight’” that would buoy her for decades to come.
In the Forests of Gombe - Orion Magazine
"How should the mind that can contemplate God relate to our fellow beings, the other life-forms of the world? What is our human responsibility?"
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 4d
“Local food is a handshake deal in a community gathering place.”

Barbara Kingsolver’s words still ring true—to eat seasonally, buy locally, and remember your part in the food chain.
Stalking the Vegetannual - Orion Magazine
A Roadmap to Eating with the Seasons
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 4d
“Where’s the border between our bodies and our stuff? If our bodies contain billions of bacteria, ancestral codes, rocks, and minerals, how did we ever come to believe in the idea of a singular self?”

—Samantha Hunt
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you for the shout, friends 🌱
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 4d
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Essays feat. @literarymama.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social @y2kq.com et al. https://duotrope.com...
Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Essays feat. @literarymama.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social @y2kq.com et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/nonfiction/essays-r6Eeyb29
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 5d
What about the pumpkin’s history makes the Pumpkin Spice Latte unsavory for Anca L. Szilágyi? What does it mean, symbolically, when Cinderella is to turn into a pumpkin at midnight? What did the pumpkin mean for artists, pilgrims, folklore?

A broad history of the gourd of the moment.
All in the Pumpkins
On autumn’s humble and heroic gourd
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 5d
What are virtues in a time of runaway global warming? What are crimes?
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 6d
The submission window for our Summer 2026 issue about whales and other cetaceans is open! Guidelines and where to pitch are all at the link below.
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 7d
Can memoirs about native and common wildlife spark more action and awe than the stories of the “charismatic megafauna” that so often act as poster children for the conservation movement? Rebecca van Laer investigates the new trend in publishing.
Animal Memoirs Gone Wild
What we can learn from more domestic forms of intimacy with nature
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 7d
David Quammen recalls an expedition into the jungle with Jane Goodall.
A Walk in the Deep Forest with Jane Goodall
David Quammen recalls an expedition into the jungle with the renowned chimpanzee expert
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Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 10d
"Zombies! Poison! Colonialism! Adventure! Mutual Aid! Maria Pinto's energetic use of language, irony, & humor will leave you grinning. Personal, daring, and utterly delightful."

Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless in @orionmagazine.bsky.social 🍄‍🟫📖
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12 New(ish) Reading Recommendations - Orion Magazine
Orion approved books to kick off your fall reading plans
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 10d
Through her love and advocacy for animals, Jane Goodall taught us all how to be better humans. She will be dearly, dearly missed.
The Shadow of Humanity and the Spirit of Animals
A conversation
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CRB @crossbaumann55.bsky.social · 10d
"Bizarre, isn’t it, that the most intellectual creature that’s ever lived on the planet is destroying its only home? There’s a disconnect between that clever, clever brain and human heart, love, and compassion. Only when head and heart work in harmony can we attain our true human potential."
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 10d
Through her love and advocacy for animals, Jane Goodall taught us all how to be better humans. She will be dearly, dearly missed.
The Shadow of Humanity and the Spirit of Animals
A conversation
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 8d
“Abundance has been deeply twisted.”

Samantha Hunt writes from the attics, the basements, the cluttered pantries of our obsessions with storage.
The Age of Storage
"Even in death, the borders of an individual must remain defined, protected."
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