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Being alone, free of distraction, can be both a writer’s dream and a nightmare.

A reading list on happiness to celebrate March 20—or International Day of Happiness.

Rebecca Solnit | Orion | Summer 2014 | 20 minutes (4,780 words) OrionOur latest Longreads Exclusive comes from Rebecca Solnit and Orion magazine—subscribe to the magazine or donate for more great stories like this. Get a free trial issue Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) [ 1. ] The word “journey” used to mean a […]

This week’s Member Pick is “Symmetrical Universe,” an essay by physicist Alan Lightman, published in the latest issue of Orion magazine. In it, Lightman explores the wonder of nature and the principles that guide its design—helping to answer questions like why a honeycomb is a hexagon, or why human-created art embraces asymmetry. Lightman is a professor […]

“State of the Species.” — Charles C. Mann, Orion Magazine More by Orion

The writer confronts her inability to have children and explores how humans’ behavior with reproduction compares with other animals: Like ours, the animal world is full of paradoxical examples of gentleness, brutality, and suffering, often performed in the service of reproduction. Female black widow spiders sometimes devour their partners after a complex and delicate mating […]

The way she held Menashi with her suckers seemed to me like the way a long-married couple holds hands at the movies. “Deep Intellect.” — Sy Montgomery, Orion Magazine Also by Orion: “The Reign of the One Percenters.” Sept. 30, 2011

The way she held Menashi with her suckers seemed to me like the way a long-married couple holds hands at the movies. “Deep Intellect.” — Sy Montgomery, Orion Magazine Also by Orion: “The Reign of the One Percenters.” Sept. 30, 2011

Top 5 Longreads of the Week: Stories from London Review of Books, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair, Orion Magazine, and a guest pick from arts journalist Suzi Steffen.

“The real hourly median wage in New York between 1990 and 2007 fell by almost 9 percent. Young men and women aged twenty-five to thirty-four with a bachelor’s degree and a year-round job in New York saw their earnings drop 6 percent. Middle-income New Yorkers—defined broadly by the FPI as those drawing incomes between approximately […]