That’s where they outshine us.” Biologists spend a lot of time writing about the important role of sound and vocalizations in ...

Navied Mahdavian has been a contributing cartoonist at the New Yorker since 2018. His work has also been published in ...

IF YOU BELIEVE the legend (and I have no reason to doubt it), in July 2002, Jason Molina—who’d recorded six previous albums under the moniker Songs: Ohia—set up in a Chicago recording studio, where a ...

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 if you find a penny? Do you pick it up? Only if it is heads up. What is your most treasured comfort meal? My mom’s lumpia and fried rice with mangoes (chilled, sliced) from their backyard for ...

SOMETIMES REVENGE IS the only first response to betrayal. Then comes the journey toward healing. When Beyoncé’s husband, rapper and music mogul Jay-Z, cheated on her with the now infamous “Becky with ...

I SEE HIM CLOAKED in cold mist, the Fisher King, a desolate figure in a wasteland of his own making. He hunches silently over his fishing rod in a sea of silence, catching nothing except the ...

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In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.

The first issue of the Orion Nature Quarterly was published in June 1982, and in its editorial George Russell, the publication’s first Editor-in-Chief, boldly stated Orion’s values: “It is Orion’s ...

Jennifer Lunden’s debut essay, “The Butterfly Effect,” won first prize in the Creative Nonfiction animal issue (Winter 2011), went on to win a Pushcart, and later was anthologized in True Stories, ...