Dad gazed into the distance. The sun glinted off the pipelines, the fence, and the oil well. “Oil,” he said, “is the blood of ...

If you’d like to read more of Kercheval’s work, check out her new graphic memoir, French Girl.

T HE CHINESE CHARACTER for silkworm (蚕) is composed of the symbol for sky (天) and the symbol for worm (虫). They are heavenly ...

The French writer Edmund Jabès described writing as a form of waiting, a relationship sculpted from silence and time—“to wait for words that wake our thoughts as they write us.” Idra Novey’s words ...

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.

Charles C. Mann’s most recent books are 1491, which won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Keck Award for the best book of the year, and 1493, which is now out in paperback. A correspondent for ...

IN OUR FREE TIME, WE DESTROY TREES. Hundreds of them by now. Five years ago, soon after I bought the place, I gave my partner a Husqvarna 450 Rancher for Christmas. Since then, he’s had to replace the ...

Gretel Ehrlich is the author of This Cold Heaven, The Future of Ice, Heart Mountain, Facing the Wave, and The Solace of Open Spaces, among other works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Ehrlich ...

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 ...

Collette Leimomi Akana’s Hānau ka Ua compiles more than two hundred Hawaiian rain names, from oral tradition, songs, chants, and Hawaiian-language literature and newspapers. In an Indigenous language ...

The Name of Time: Forty origin stories for the anthropocene The Summer of 2022 marks Orion’s 40th anniversary, which means our Summer issue this year is something entirely new: The Name of Time: 40 ...

It’s Orion‘s very first love issue! This special Winter issue is perfect to cozy up with on the long, dark nights ahead, complete with stories and poems buzzing with affection, companionship, mating ...