Women We Read This Week
Amanda Giracca’s “Into the Field ” in Orion Magazine By combining vivid and highly detailed scenes from her experience in field biology classes with…
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Women We Read This Week
Laurie Penny’s “Women can’t have it all – because the game is rigged” in the New Statesman Laurie Penny is excellent here on the…
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Women We Read This Week
Amanda Giracca’s “The art of butchery” on Aeon Full disclosure: Amanda Giracca is a Vela contributing editor, and a friend of mine from the…
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A Year of Vela
Today, September 6, 2012, we at Vela celebrate the first anniversary of the magazine.There is much to come, but before we get to all of…
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“God Bless Big Oil”: Field Notes from the Land of Industrial Tourism
You want to know why they always name a blast furnace after a woman?” asked a stout woman in dark sunglasses and a hardhat.
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Summer People
They arrive as the first dogwood trees are flowering. They trickle in at first, so few you don’t even notice.
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Fear and Loneliness in Sublette County
It was lonely at the top of Indian Pass. I should have been more excited to be at the apex of my hike, nearly 12,000 feet in elevation.
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A Non-Travel Essay
It is the twist in the red tail’s neck that makes it so appealing. The way I can almost read death in the curve of the spine. Feathers still cling to the open wings…
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Rekindled
When I was nineteen, I burned down a small field of bamboo. It was one of the loneliest afternoons I can remember.
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