Orion Magazine

Orion invites readers into a community of caring for the planet—justly, sustainably, and joyously.

08/09/2025

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s reader favorite: a new/old guide on how to speak (and therefore how to think) when talking about nature.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/

08/08/2025

Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay show us how to measure time in gardens in this year-long poetry swap. https://orionmagazine.org/article/letters-from-two-gardens/

08/08/2025

On the discovery of the interstitium, a “new” layer in human anatomy, and all the possibilities it poses for science—and life.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/interstitium-scientific-discovery-anatomy/

08/07/2025

Fighting for prison abolition is a Sysiphean task. But artist jackie sumell found a way in through her work running Solitary Gardens, matching prisoners in solitary confinement who, with the help of pen pals on the outside, build and grow their own plots of flowers, vegetables, and more.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-solitary-garden/

08/07/2025

In the wake of our mushroom issue, we’re thinking a lot about Luke Perry. After the actor’s death in 2019, Casey Lyon researched Perry’s unconventional end-of-life request: that he be returned to the earth in a mushroom shroud.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/luke-perry-mushroom-shroud-90210-riverdale/

08/06/2025

For some, gardening is a peaceful, meditative practice. For Eula Biss, it’s a practice in force.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/force/

08/06/2025

What do we do with our anger? What do we do with our grief? Terry Tempest Williams and Robert Macfarlane find answers together in this meeting-of-the-minds conversation.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/dreaming-with-water/

08/05/2025

“Aren’t weeds simply plants we don’t know?”

For our translation issue a couple springs ago, Lisa Lee Herrick wrote of her mother’s garden and the language it keeps alive.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/hmong-language-gardening/

08/05/2025

Camille Dungy makes a love story out of a giant, ill-timed pile of dirt.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/dirt/

08/04/2025

A guide for grieving. 💚
https://orionmagazine.org/article/11-interventions-in-the-10-days-of-your-dying/

08/04/2025

Lanternflies are back, and now there’s a bipartisan push to stop their spread. A few summers ago, Kim Schmidt wrote for Orion about the debate over the invasive bug: to kill, or not to kill?
https://orionmagazine.org/article/spotted-lanternfly-kill-new-york-city-2023/

08/03/2025

Pitch submissions are OPEN y’all. From now until August 15, send us your submissions for our Spring 2026 Labor issue, Working the Land.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/interested-in-writing-for-orion/

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