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· Oct 23
COVER REVEAL! Our Autumn issue, THE NATURAL RHYTHMS OF HIP-HOP, is almost at your doorstep.
This issue is all about the role of hip-hop: in our imaginations, in our sense of place, in how it reflects the human/nonhuman rhythms of the world.
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This issue is all about the role of hip-hop: in our imaginations, in our sense of place, in how it reflects the human/nonhuman rhythms of the world.
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"I’ve wondered what might happen if I narrow my lens: apply constraints to my days, focus on the choices that actually shape my world."
In today's Year in Reading essay, @cherilucasrowlands.com acknowledges her limits: longreads.com/2025/12/12/r...
In today's Year in Reading essay, @cherilucasrowlands.com acknowledges her limits: longreads.com/2025/12/12/r...
A Year in Reading: Restraint as Wisdom - Longreads
We live in a culture built on ignoring limits—of land, of bodies, of attention—and these stories kept returning me to that truth.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"I’ve wondered what might happen if I narrow my lens: apply constraints to my days, focus on the choices that actually shape my world."
In today's Year in Reading essay, @cherilucasrowlands.com acknowledges her limits: longreads.com/2025/12/12/r...
In today's Year in Reading essay, @cherilucasrowlands.com acknowledges her limits: longreads.com/2025/12/12/r...
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An absolutely beautiful book!
You remember the famous Yellowstone Wolf Project? Kathleen Yale was a wildlife field technician for it a decade into its development. Her experience inspired her latest book, 'What Goes on inside a Wolf Pack,' or what @ericajberry.bsky.social calls "an elegant, thought-provoking" year-in-the-life.
No Species Lives in Isolation
A conversation about graphic storytelling, wolf-watching, and community, with children’s book author Kathleen Yale
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December 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
An absolutely beautiful book!
Now THAT'S good reading
NEW arrivals 🗞🤩 at the Magazines & Newspapers Room! The always beautiful @orionmagazine.bsky.social is all about hip-hop and is guest edited by Nif Muhammad, Chess Life has a profile on the second Black American grandmaster, Sojourners does a deep dive into a Southern Queer church, and lots more!
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Now THAT'S good reading
Ghourba | A geographic estrangement; the state of being a stranger among strangers.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Ghourba | A geographic estrangement; the state of being a stranger among strangers.
From Orion's Autumn 2025 issue | orionmagazine.org/product/subs...
From Orion's Autumn 2025 issue | orionmagazine.org/product/subs...
Anyone who’s seen Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ can recall its groundbreaking, hip-hop heavy soundtrack. Orion’s film columnist, Moeko Fujii, examines the soundtrack as a character in the movie, and how it reflects back the film’s enigmatic subject: Jay Gatsby.
Moneyed Voices
"Hip-hop sets the tone for New York City; for the speakeasies; and, most important, for Gatsby’s famed, decadent parties."
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December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Anyone who’s seen Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ can recall its groundbreaking, hip-hop heavy soundtrack. Orion’s film columnist, Moeko Fujii, examines the soundtrack as a character in the movie, and how it reflects back the film’s enigmatic subject: Jay Gatsby.
Simon Winchester is an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author of multiple vast works, including his most recent release, ‘The Breath of the Gods,’ a book about the wind. But what does he look for when he enters a new bookstore? (Hint: it’s not a book.)
Simon Winchester Answers The Orion Questionnaire
In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Simon Winchester is an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author of multiple vast works, including his most recent release, ‘The Breath of the Gods,’ a book about the wind. But what does he look for when he enters a new bookstore? (Hint: it’s not a book.)
Look closely at these magnificent illustrations by Jill Pelto.
In them, you’ll find carefully crafted graphs telling a story of climate change you can’t look away from.
In them, you’ll find carefully crafted graphs telling a story of climate change you can’t look away from.
The Wondrous Works of Jill Pelto - Orion Magazine
Incorporating scientific data into watercolor paintings
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December 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Look closely at these magnificent illustrations by Jill Pelto.
In them, you’ll find carefully crafted graphs telling a story of climate change you can’t look away from.
In them, you’ll find carefully crafted graphs telling a story of climate change you can’t look away from.
Behold: the superb lyrebird, king of freestyle!
The latest animal profile from Kathleen Yale, this time for Orion’s hip-hop issue.
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The latest animal profile from Kathleen Yale, this time for Orion’s hip-hop issue.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Behold: the superb lyrebird, king of freestyle!
The latest animal profile from Kathleen Yale, this time for Orion’s hip-hop issue.
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The latest animal profile from Kathleen Yale, this time for Orion’s hip-hop issue.
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Fantastic adventure, gentle lessons, amazing illustration: we’ve done all the research on gift ideas for the kiddos in your life. All you have to do is browse.
12 Picture Book Recommendations for the Young Ones in Your Life - Orion Magazine
Give the gift of a good story
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December 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Fantastic adventure, gentle lessons, amazing illustration: we’ve done all the research on gift ideas for the kiddos in your life. All you have to do is browse.
“Through my work in the garden, I have become rich in time.”
A meditation on the winter garden, a place with much to teach about patience and our silly man-made schedules.
A meditation on the winter garden, a place with much to teach about patience and our silly man-made schedules.
Winter Garden - Orion Magazine
Finding redemption in a place out of time
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December 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“Through my work in the garden, I have become rich in time.”
A meditation on the winter garden, a place with much to teach about patience and our silly man-made schedules.
A meditation on the winter garden, a place with much to teach about patience and our silly man-made schedules.
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True "abundance"
Are you looking to rehabilitate the way you see the world? Are you hoping for more “gift thinking,” the way Robin Wall Kimmerer describes it? This conversation is a good place to start.
Gift Thinking - Orion Magazine
The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy
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December 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
True "abundance"
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Check out this fun interview with Erica Berry, author of Aeon Essay ’An Animal Myself’ aeon.co/essays/playi...
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Check out this fun interview with Erica Berry, author of Aeon Essay ’An Animal Myself’ aeon.co/essays/playi...
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As gift-giving season kicks off, remember Orion on Giving Tuesday—today, tomorrow, or anytime before midnight on December 2. Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes as a bonus. Donate at this link: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
As gift-giving season kicks off, remember Orion on Giving Tuesday—today, tomorrow, or anytime before midnight on December 2. Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes as a bonus. Donate at this link: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
Today, on Giving Tuesday, Orion is grateful to all our donors who have made a gift this year to support impactful environmental storytelling. If you haven’t donated yet, there's still time! Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Today, on Giving Tuesday, Orion is grateful to all our donors who have made a gift this year to support impactful environmental storytelling. If you haven’t donated yet, there's still time! Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
Are you looking to rehabilitate the way you see the world? Are you hoping for more “gift thinking,” the way Robin Wall Kimmerer describes it? This conversation is a good place to start.
Gift Thinking - Orion Magazine
The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy
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December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Are you looking to rehabilitate the way you see the world? Are you hoping for more “gift thinking,” the way Robin Wall Kimmerer describes it? This conversation is a good place to start.
🚨 Gift idea alert 🚨
12 Picture Book Recommendations for the Young Ones in Your Life
Give the gift of a good story
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November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🚨 Gift idea alert 🚨
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This looks like another good read.
That cover 😍
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This looks like another good read.
That cover 😍
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
That cover 😍
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
On consumption.
The Age of Eating - Orion Magazine
" They seemed to arise out of nowhere by the millions. Lying in wait for decades, possibly."
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November 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
On consumption.
As gift-giving season kicks off, remember Orion on Giving Tuesday—today, tomorrow, or anytime before midnight on December 2. Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes as a bonus. Donate at this link: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
As gift-giving season kicks off, remember Orion on Giving Tuesday—today, tomorrow, or anytime before midnight on December 2. Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes as a bonus. Donate at this link: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
Danusha Laméris observes the turkeys in her backyard... and notices an unexpected interloper.
Strange Bedfellows
Discover the daily schedule of wild turkeys
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November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Danusha Laméris observes the turkeys in her backyard... and notices an unexpected interloper.
"I only make pecan pie at Thanksgiving," writes Robin Wall Kimmerer. "I don’t even like it especially, but I want to honor that tree."
On the social and ecological history, the mass-fruiting mystery, and the abundant generosity of pecan trees.
On the social and ecological history, the mass-fruiting mystery, and the abundant generosity of pecan trees.
Council of the Pecans
Lessons on native resilience from a venerable tree
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November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"I only make pecan pie at Thanksgiving," writes Robin Wall Kimmerer. "I don’t even like it especially, but I want to honor that tree."
On the social and ecological history, the mass-fruiting mystery, and the abundant generosity of pecan trees.
On the social and ecological history, the mass-fruiting mystery, and the abundant generosity of pecan trees.
Join our community of carers for the planet by donating to Orion.
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Gifts of all sizes are welcome and needed. If you make a gift of $100 or more, you can choose to receive our new tote, ONLY available in 2025 through our Giving Tuesday campaign! Donate here: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Join our community of carers for the planet by donating to Orion.
Gifts of all sizes are welcome and needed. If you make a gift of $100 or more, you can choose to receive our new tote, ONLY available in 2025 through our Giving Tuesday campaign! Donate here: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
Gifts of all sizes are welcome and needed. If you make a gift of $100 or more, you can choose to receive our new tote, ONLY available in 2025 through our Giving Tuesday campaign! Donate here: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
"Can I have a relationship with these animals alive? Or is the killing, the eating, that magical bridging, a crucial part of my love, part of my relationship with these animals, with the world?"
Gretchen Legler ponders hunting, intimacy, and how food shapes our relationship with the natural world.
Gretchen Legler ponders hunting, intimacy, and how food shapes our relationship with the natural world.
Gooseberry Marsh
On love and hunting ducks
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November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"Can I have a relationship with these animals alive? Or is the killing, the eating, that magical bridging, a crucial part of my love, part of my relationship with these animals, with the world?"
Gretchen Legler ponders hunting, intimacy, and how food shapes our relationship with the natural world.
Gretchen Legler ponders hunting, intimacy, and how food shapes our relationship with the natural world.
"Nothing is more threatening to one’s mental health than to be caught uncomfortably sober when it comes time for the leader of the free world to issue a televised and legally binding pardon to a bird."
On one of America's weirdest traditions: the turkey pardon.
On one of America's weirdest traditions: the turkey pardon.
Freebirds
I believe deeply in all these versions, but for me Thanksgiving is very much about the pardoning of turkeys.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"Nothing is more threatening to one’s mental health than to be caught uncomfortably sober when it comes time for the leader of the free world to issue a televised and legally binding pardon to a bird."
On one of America's weirdest traditions: the turkey pardon.
On one of America's weirdest traditions: the turkey pardon.