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The Unlikely Success of Wingspan - Orion Magazine
Dec 5, 2023 · She said her initial inspiration for Wingspan came from both a love for board games and a frustration over their typical topics and themes. From battling enemies to settling lands, the trends of popular games have long focused on economic and colonialist ideas, and a quick review of ranking sites reveals descriptions filled with terms …
Artist Shaun Tan Makes the Familiar Strange - Orion Magazine
Oct 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 ...
George Saunders on Writing - Orion Magazine
November 1, 2022. You might see George Saunders’s first four books of short stories as a whole life’s creative growth compressed into a dozen years: discovering voice, developing characters, settling into themes, and guiding the reading experience. He seemed to have cracked a sort of code, allowing him to write from somewhere beyond ...
The Crying Indian - Orion Magazine
November/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 Imagination of the Tiny - Orion Magazine
Oct 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.
Agent Orange: A Chapter from History That Just Won’t End
A 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 …
Kinship Is a Verb - Orion Magazine
Kinship Is a Verb. By Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Hausdoerffer. November 16, 2021. THE FOLLOWING IS A CONVERSATIONbetween Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer, and Gavin Van Horn, the coeditors of the five-volume series Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (Center for Humans and Nature Press, 2021).
Speaking of Nature - Orion Magazine
March/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.
Six Questions for the Author: Once There Were Wolves
Aug 4, 2021 · Charlotte McConaghy is the author of the novels Migrations, a national bestseller that is being translated into over twenty languages, and Once There Were Wolves. She is based in Sydney, Australia. Julie Carrick Dalton ’s debut novel, Waiting for the Night Song, was a CNN, Newsweek, Parade, and USA Today Most Anticipated 2021 book.