Orion Magazine

10/12/2025

“The sacred has the capacity to be its own ecosystem of many different faces and elements.”

What can be sacred? Diné poet and educator Jake Skeets considers sacredness’s many facets, from pizza parlors and TikTok to tradition and democracy.

Can modern material translate ancient ways?

10/11/2025

“When our stories are lost, we often lose the cultural values required to guide the way to live in balance on Earth.”

On Indigenous oral tradition and the sacred science of sound.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/hearing-the-waters-2/

10/11/2025

What would motivate you more to change your behaviors to save wildlife: a book about elephants, a book about the wild fauna in your own backyard, or a book about your pet? Would any? Rebecca van Laer sifts through the noise.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/animal-memoirs-gone-wild/

10/10/2025

"where did you go, little rag, / shape of black purpose?"

From 'Bat' by Cleopatra Mathis, in Orion, 2009.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/bat/

10/10/2025

A w**d is simply “a plant in the wrong place.”

On w**ds, borders, and belonging.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/giant-hogw**d-most-dangerous-plant-britain/

10/10/2025

Our love for whales 🤝 your love for whales

The submission window for our Summer 2026 issue about whales and other cetaceans is open! Guidelines and where to pitch are all at the link below.
https://orionmagazine.org/submission-guidelines/

10/09/2025

What piece of fiction has four paragraphs, themes of mystery and despair, and a reference to an iconic horror movie?

"I like to imagine I was backlit and stoic, even though I was furious and probably crying."

10/09/2025

In praise of the pumpkins, the sweet potatoes, the squashes—the patron vegetables of soup season, of cold weather, of hard times.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/cold-weather-vegetables-fall/

10/08/2025

Thinking about primatology’s trailblazing women today 💭

Walking in the footsteps of primatology’s trailblazing women

10/08/2025

Caught ya doomscrolling! Nab one of these books to get yourself off of these apps and into some truly good reading.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/2025-fall-reading-books-list/

10/08/2025

After her second husband’s passing, Jane Goodall headed into the forests of Gombe for a little bit of peace. What followed was “a flash of ‘outsight’” that would buoy her for decades to come.

"How should the mind that can contemplate God relate to our fellow beings, the other life-forms of the world? What is our human responsibility?"

10/07/2025

“Local food is a handshake deal in a community gathering place.”

Barbara Kingsolver’s words still ring true—to eat seasonally, buy locally, and remember your part in the food chain.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/stalking-the-vegetannual/