“Moving the Saints,” from the Spring 2023 issue of Orion, was included as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2024. Read the piece here. Orion’s “The Language of Nature” issue includes work by Lydia Davis, Anne Carson, and others.
“Saussure talk about the signifier and the signified, but what happens when you can’t tell them apart? A mirror, like language, is a construct of duplicitous depth and direction, capable of true and lies in equal measure, and haven’t we always hoped to walk through glass and find a god we didn’t make, pull the moon from water and never drown?”
