Oregon Archives

Oregon

Night Watch

When I was a kid, we played a game: would you rather be given eternal happiness or told the secrets of the universe? I always chose secrets. In Eugene, Oregon,…

Notes on the State of Jefferson

by James Pogue,

A secessionist movement brews in northern California

Home Country

by Héctor Tobar,

What does it mean to be Latino?

Total Eclipse of the Heart

From a Craigslist ad posted in the San Francisco area in August, preceding a total solar eclipse that passed over Oregon and other parts of the United States.

When I Die

by Brooke Jarvis,

An end-of-life doctor faces his own end

Rebuilding Roseburg

by Tim Sohn,

Life in a town marked by tragedy

In Search of a Stolen Fiddle

by Abe Streep,

From the pawnshops of Portland to the con men of Craigslist

Annotations on an Exterior Shot of the Overlook Hotel

by Stanley Kubrick,

Timberline Lodge, a building on the south side of Oregon’s Mount Hood that served as the exterior for the Overlook Hotel, annotated with Stanley Kubrick’s instructions to the crew of The…

Untitled

by Richard Ross,

The lord taketh away

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

by David Maisel,