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The Ecological Imagination of Hayao Miyazaki - Orion Magazine
Mar 5, 2021 · In our Spring 2021 issue, Isaac Yuen dove deep into the fantastical worlds of acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki. Here, in a special online feature, listen to Yuen read as he recounts Miyazaki’s classics and the depictions of nature within them.
Beautiful Impermanence: An Interview with Sculptor Patrick …
Jun 23, 2022 · Unlike most sculptors, Patrick Dougherty makes things that are meant not to last. And yet, a tremendous amount of work, hard physical work, careful planning, and artful imagination goes into every piece; each is a beautiful, collaborative rendition of an interaction between the artist, his material, and the natural and social environment.
The Best of Wendell Berry - Orion Magazine
Aug 5, 2020 · Wendell Berry has been an Orion contributor and advisor since the magazine’s beginnings in 1982. Berry is the author of over forty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and has farmed in Port Royal, Kentucky, for over forty years.
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 …
John Freeman - Orion Magazine
John Freeman is the founder of the literary annual Freeman’s and editor of multiple anthologies, including The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, (2021).His other books include How to Read a Novelist, The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox, and two volumes of poetry, Maps and The Park.His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has ...
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.
Artist Shaun Tan Makes the Familiar Strange - Orion Magazine
Oct 26, 2022 · Kyo Maclear: First, let me say what a delight it was to spend time with your beautiful book.Can you talk about the origins of Creature?. Shaun Tan: Books for me are a bit like planets. Initially, there’s a lot of gas and dust floating around in space – different ideas, sketches, notes – and through some gravity of their own, these things gather into something with mass, density, and (if ...
The Crying Indian - Orion Magazine
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Six Questions for the Author: Once There Were Wolves
Aug 4, 2021 · Read an excerpt from Once There Were Wolves.. C HARLOTTE MCCONAGHY’S Once There Were Wolves, set in the Scottish Highlands, follows Inti Flynn, a scientist dedicated to reintroducing wolves to their former habitat in the hopes that they will return the land to its natural state.The story extends far beyond the fate of the scientists, wolves, and locals who fear the animals’ return.