Fiction: The Brothers
“The boys were never apart, from the earliest they were inseparable. They slept in the same bed, ate from the same plate, fought the same fights.”
Cinema as a Memory of Nature
“Cinema becomes an unofficial archive—not of triumph, but of evidence. It records not what we achieved, but what we allowed to disappear.”
February Issue, 2026
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Letter From the Editor, February, 2026: Elegy for a Dark-Eyed Junco
And here we are.
The Great Unknown and the Unknown Great: Rediscovering artist and political activist Chuzo Tamotsu
His art was “One small way to express my love for peace and hatred for war … is to do what I can for any victims of aggression, wherever they may be.”
The children are always ours
“The empire never intended that this testimony should be heard, but, if I hold my peace, the very stones will cry out… neither the citizen-subject within the gates nor the indescribable hordes outside it believe in the morality or the reality of the kingdom anymore — when no one, any longer, anywhere, aspires to the empire’s standards.”
John Heartfield, photomontage as a political weapon
“He inscribed the slogan ‘use photography as a weapon,’ which underlines his faith in the impact of this new medium and its ability to denounce the perversities of the modern world: fascism, war and its atrocities, Nazism or capitalism.”
A Short Anti-Fascist Playlist
“To them, popular culture mattered, it was vibrant, and it was politically up for grabs.”
ANEW Artist’s Alliance Group Show
A Group show of the beautiful artwork of the ANEW Artist’s Alliance.
The Flickering Ghost: What Remains When the Projector Goes Dark?
“The greatest films, I have always believed, are empathy machines. They allow us to see the world through eyes that are not our own.” A beautiful love letter to cinema by Amir Zadnemat
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