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The Day the Lake Took the Edmund Fitzgerald - Orion Magazine
WEBOct 25, 2022 · NAMING A SHIP AFTER A MAN used to be bad luck in sailing. The Edmund Fitzgerald is named after the president of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, who wanted to build the biggest freighter on the biggest lake. And there was her ill-fated nickname: “Titanic of the Great Lakes.” Maybe greed cursed the ship. There were omens from the …
Artist Shaun Tan Makes the Familiar Strange - Orion Magazine
WEBOct 26, 2022 · For those who may be unaware, Shaun Tan is one of the most lauded contemporary illustrators in the world, a revered cult figure among fellow creators, and deservingly so. He grew up in West Australia amid “the forested southwest, the arid north, the vast inland desert, the endless beaches.”. He spins strange tales that rearrange …
The Imagination of the Tiny - Orion Magazine
WEBOct 17, 2023 · THE FIRST RULE OF BORROWING, a father tells his daughter in Mary Norton’s Borrowers, is that “a Borrower must never be seen.”But like in Fight Club, the story is dependent on this rule being broken.And so Arrietty, a girl two and a half inches tall, steps forth onto a boy’s palm and looks at his skin: a landscape, a touch, a stage.
The Crying Indian - Orion Magazine
WEBNovember/December 2008. January 1, 1970. IF YOU WATCHED television at any point in the seventies, you saw him: America’s most famous Indian. Star of perhaps the best-known public service announcement ever, he was a black-braided, buckskinned, cigar-store native come to life, complete with single feather and stoic frown.
The Elephant and The Tragopan - Orion Magazine
WEBNov 15, 2022 · Wolfgang Hasselmann / Unsplash. The Elephant and The Tragopan. In Bingle Valley, broad and green, Where neither hut nor field is seen, Where bamboo, like a distant lawn, Is gold at dusk and flushed at dawn, Where rhododendron forests crown The hills, and wander halfway down In scarlet blossom, where each year A dozen shy black …
Speaking of Nature - Orion Magazine
WEBMarch/April 2017. June 12, 2017. A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths beneath rewilding oaks.
When Suffering Goes Viral - Orion Magazine
WEBKeystone Story. When Suffering Goes Viral. Down the YouTube rabbit hole of tranq addiction in Philadelphia’s Needle Park. By Emma Copley Eisenberg. Art By Jeffrey Stockbridge. from. Autumn 2023. Seeking Shelter: The environments of the unhoused and displaced. October 3, 2023.
Eleven Poetry Anthologies Handpicked for Orion Readers
WEBAug 30, 2021 · Eleven Poetry Anthologies Handpicked for. Orion. Readers. By Camille T. Dungy & Kathleen Yale. August 30, 2021. EACH MONTH, Orion ’s poetry editor, Camille Dungy, and friends recommend poetry collections they think our readers might enjoy. This month we’re recommending a host of anthologies, and with them an opportunity to meet …
From War Machine to Supermarket Staple: A History of the Plastic …
WEBMay 14, 2024 · THE HISTORY OF the plastic carrier bag—the kind so often found caught on a tree branch and flagging in the wind—is a story of persuasion.. For over a century, the paper bag held dominion over how groceries were hauled home. By the 1980s, the plastics industry saw the grocery bag—a lucrative market, over $600 million at the time—as “the …