• Profiles of love in climate disaster from Elizabeth Rush and Liza Yeager
• Erica Berry revisits romances throughout ecological history
• Shauna Laurel Jones traces the history of the feather boa in drag culture
• Tove Danovich observes the intersection of appetites in carnivorous plants
• Lulu Miller interviews artist John Megahan about queer behavior in the animal kingdom

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• Omar el Akkad examines the years-long aftermath of Oregon’s Santiam fire.
• Carl Safina writes of the abandoned screech owl he’s been watching for years.
• Kaia Sand introduces unhoused poets Daniel Cox, Randy Humphreys, Michone Nettles, George McCarthy, and Bronwyn Carver.
• Emma Copley Eisenberg reports from Kensington, Philadelphia, where residents and voyeurs explain how addiction has shaped and undone lives in the area.
• Zarina Zabrisky reports from the remnants of Chornobyl.

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• Ken Liu constructs a fairytale with the help of an unlikely sidekick: AI
• Anne Frank is a warrior princess in Kate Bernheimer's close reading of The Diary of a Young Girl
• Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link discuss horror, fairytales, and why the terrifying is sublime
• Kate Lebo eats oysters and remembers selkies
• Kapka Kassabova celebrates the impossible survival of a colorful Breznitsan tradition

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What's Inside:

Orion's 35th Anniversary Issue: Nature and Culture at a Turning Point

This special 35th Anniversary Issue of Orion explores the turning points—both personal and global—at which we realize we must change our lives.

Orion's 40th Anniversary Issue: The Name of Time: Forty Origin Stories for the Anthropocene

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• Nastassja Martin explores the language that defines anthropology
• Sumana Roy revisits the work of Jagadish Chandra Bose, a turn-of-the-century botanist and alchemist who attempted to speak with his plants
• Lydia Davis translates the tiny animal stories of A.L. Snijders
• Jessica J. Lee writes on the vocabulary of the weather
• Anne Carson tells the story of a monk and a mermaid in a pages-long epic poem

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•Ilya Kaminsky curates a portfolio of Ukranian writers reflecting on the small ways in which the war has changed the landscape

•Rafia Zakaria follows the movements of crows in Karachi, Pakistan, to tell a story of industry, gentrification, and cultural identity

• Kyo Maclear enumerates on why children sympathize with the insects of picture books

• A longitudinal citizen science project measures nuclear residue in 400,000 baby teeth

• A look at the acorn as nourishment and protest in the work of Octavia Butler

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• Casey Lyons finds unlikely inspiration in 90210's Luke Perry, who wore a burial suit designed to compost his body.

• Ross Gay celebrates pickup basketball, a game in which strangers commune on land they don’t own.

• Sujatha Fernandes describes the power of maintaining presence in the fight against coal mining on Indigenous land.

• Lacy Johnson finds unsettling connections between the ownership of land and the ownership of people as she considers the history of the longleaf pine.

• Sandra Cisneros reflects on the inextricable connection between the land she inhabits and the work she produces.

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This issue, designed as a collectible, is a little different. To make it, we gave 40 writers and 40 artists the same prompt: when did the Anthropocene—the age of time defined by man's imprint on planet Earth—begin?

Their answers, marked by 40 short essays adorned with 40 stunning illustrations, will blow you away. Featuring work from the likes of: Lulu Miller, Amy Irvine, Barry Lopez, Barbara Kingsolver, Martin Shaw, and many, many more.

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• Sy Montgomery illuminates the resilience of turtles and those who choose to care for them.
• Leslie Jamison writes of motherhood, the underworld, and the liminal nature of each body that passes through a hospital.
• Daisy Hildyard delves into relationality, adaptability, and the interdependencies of our built and natural environments.
•  Farah Kader ties healing to history through the memory of two Palestines.
• Jolene Brink writes of the absurdity and the hope of the Kinderbrutanstalt, or "child hatchery." And much more.

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• Sunaura Taylor follows a community threatened by toxic groundwater that fights ecological ableism.
• Taylor Brorby lives with diabetes in the era of climate crisis.
• Marina Tsaplina's enchanted puppet restores care for life.
• Glenis Redmond writes about how labor, lineage, and cancer are held by the land.
• Amy Irvine's daughter Ruby McHarg and her service dog navigate a forest of epilepsy. And much more.

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