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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 habitual ...
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 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 start. At the christening, Elizabeth Fitzgerald had ...
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
WEBOct 3, 2023 — I knew already that this neighborhood—Kensington—and particularly the ten-block radius around Kensington and Allegheny, is, according to my local news site, Billy Penn, “the aortic valve of the region’s opioid crisis,” or, as described in a New York Times Magazine piece despised by many Philadelphians for its parachute journalism, “the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin ...
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.
Mink River - Orion Magazine
WEBA veteran has been traumatized by war, a sculptor sinks into depression, a fisherman disappears into the Pacific, a salesman withers from cancer, a woman struggles against the grip of alcohol and promiscuity, a girl is molested by her father, the father shoots the policeman who rescues her, a boy rides his bicycle over a cliff and smashes his ...
Submission Guidelines - Orion Magazine
WEBBefore submitting a pitch, the most important thing we can suggest is that you familiarize yourself Orion and consider how your work is appropriate for our pages. Orion is about exploring environmental and social issues and looking at what and how people are going about addressing them. If this statement feels obtuse to you (besides the bad ...
Agent Orange: A Chapter from History That Just Won’t End
WEBA decade and a half of life — of marriage and divorce, of fatherhood and graduate school, of love affairs and rafting swift rivers, of university teaching and Buddhist meditation — have swept away much of the hidden shyness and dread. But still, at the age of thirty-three, I’m finding that old habits die hard.