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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 · 10h
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 · 15h
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 · 18h
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.
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"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 · 1d
“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 · 1d
“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 · 1d
Thank you for the shout, friends 🌱
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 1d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
What are virtues in a time of runaway global warming? What are crimes?
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 7d
"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 · 7d
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 · 7d
"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 · 7d
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 · 5d
“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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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 5d
Trace back the history of invasive plants today and you’ll often find humans at the center of their relocations. Jessica J. Lee takes a look at “the most dangerous plant in Britain” and wonders: what can weeds teach us about borders and our own “tidy maps of the world”?
The Most Dangerous Plant in Britain
On weeds, borders, and belonging
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 6d
Our friends at @radiolab.bsky.social published an episode of Terrestrials today that came out of the research that Natalie Middleton did for this story. Give it a listen right here.
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Radiolab for Kids Presents: Terrestrials | Terrestrials | WNYC Studios
A show where we uncover the strangeness right here on Earth
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 6d
In 1971, four hundred seeds made an unusual journey—into space, around the moon, and back again. Then they were planted and, against all odds and hypotheses, they grew. Meet the moon trees.
Moon Tree
Field notes on the tiny seeds that took a trip around the dark side of the moon
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 6d
Cold-weather vegetables are witnesses to hard times, slower seasons, generations of survival through the winter. Katrina Vandenberg writes in praise of the lessons offered by their complexity.
On Cold-Weather Vegetables
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 7d
"Already the year-end tallying’s begun: / the time the leaves take getting ready to turn / divided by the months an animal spends sleeping..."

From 'Lexicon' by Emily Wheeler, Orion 2012.
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 7d
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 · 7d
Submissions are now OPEN for Orion’s Summer 2026 whale issue, The Deep Dive. Send us your pitches about cetaceans! (Just one thing: no orcas. You *know* we’ve already got them covered.) Deadline is October 15.
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Serena Larkin @serenalarkin.bsky.social · 7d
about to max out my library holds
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 7d
It’s October (!!), which means our reading list is resetting for fall. Here are 12 new-ish book recommendations to inspire you, inform you, and get you off the hellscape of the internet.
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 · 7d
It’s October (!!), which means our reading list is resetting for fall. Here are 12 new-ish book recommendations to inspire you, inform you, and get you off the hellscape of the internet.
12 New(ish) Reading Recommendations - Orion Magazine
Orion approved books to kick off your fall reading plans
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