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How Art Can Help Defend the Natural World
In all the languages of fire and storm, the earth calls us to defend ongoing life. Can art itself be a kind of activism? Kathleen Dean Moore, an essayist, and Bob Continue reading
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Writing in Times of Dire Need
In the introduction to her latest book, Bright Unbearable Reality, Anna Badkhen states that one in seven humans have left their birthplaces, many of them crossing political borders because of disasters Continue reading
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Messengers from the Past
Priyanka Kumar’s “Messengers from the Past” is excerpted from Conversations with Birds. I. THE CROWN JEWEL OF OUR National Wildlife Refuge System, the Bosque del Apache, has been my annual pilgrimage Continue reading
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Orion Staff on What You Should Read, Watch, and Do in November
Recent encounters with art and beauty on paper, screen, or in nature. VIEW The Great Silence I once spent several months trying to learn as much as I could Continue reading
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George Saunders on Writing
You might see George Saunders’s first four books of short stories as a whole life’s creative growth compressed into a dozen years: discovering voice, developing characters, settling into themes, and guiding Continue reading