USING FLAMEWORKED GLASS and mixed media, Andrea Spencer’s work explores the natural world by creating artworks that express ...

I HAD THE AMAZING EXPERIENCE, in preparing for this conversation, of getting to read these authors’ works all at once—Merlin Sheldrake, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kaitlin Smith. I hope it’s not ...

ON A MID-AUGUST SUNDAY in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian Schwarz, ...

Subscribe and help keep Orion independent, nonprofit, and ad-free.

I DO NOT KNOW THE NIGHT; I sleep with the sun. This makes summer days feel long and glorious—and winters, hard. I do not know the night, and maybe I am afraid of what it suggests, the infinite ...

Mushrooms on log, one large, many smaller, Kesselbach; Gerda Arendt / Wikimedia Commons Expand image caption Mushrooms on log, one large, many smaller, Kesselbach; Gerda Arendt / Wikimedia Commons ...

Subscribe and help keep Orion independent, nonprofit, and ad-free.