Recommending excellent stories from Lewis Hyde, Reeves Wiedeman, Sam Myers, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and David W. Brown.
Emergence Magazine
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Becoming Earth
“But here the line is blurred. In the afterlife of cedars, nothing is ever dead.”
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Kingdom of Funga: A Mycelial Reading List on a Strange and Surreal World Around Us
Seven stories celebrating the mystery and power of fungi.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories by Kori Suzuki, D. Watkins, Mike Scalise, Emily Polk, and Vassi Chamberlain.
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Telling the Bees
“Finding solace in the company of bees, Emily Polk opens to the widening circles of loss around her and an enduring spirit of survival.”
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Beginning with Seeds: Restoration in the Wake of Wildfires
“Environmental scientist Lauren E. Oakes considers how learning what seeds to plant—literal and metaphorical—can help us restore both life and Earth in the wake of profound loss.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Notable longform stories written by David Farrier, Luc Rinaldi, Claire Gagné, Jonathan Weiner, and Dave Holmes.
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Here Come the Lionfish
“Coming face to face with lionfish in the warming waters of the Aegean Sea, James Bridle traces the unfolding of geology, evolution, and empire that not only occasions this meeting, but binds us in relationship with this ‘invasive’ species.”
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Wild Clocks
“Attentive to the loss of age-old ecological relationships as ‘wild clocks’ fall out of synchronization with each other, David Farrier imagines an opportunity to renew the rhythms by which we live.”
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When the Prince of Heaven Sleeps
“For me, one of the most subversive images in art is a Black man resting—not dead but resting—his body not compelled to work for anyone’s gaze.”