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December


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. We’re really honored this month to share photography from Paris, paintings from Ottawa, a brilliant article written in Tokyo about a Ugandan record label, along with beautiful poetry (New Mexico), memoir (UK via Brooklyn), and much more.

Frédéric Carrayol: Lost Images From the Sink

This craftsman, as he likes to define himself, photographer and shooter, freezes a free and wild nature with the sandstone of his wanderings across the continents. Then he returned it on paper with coffee toning, complex emulsions and rare treatments.

Featured Artist: Sharon VanStarkenburg

My work is blasphemous: I take symbols of proper, normative femininity and make them transgressive within contexts in which the female protagonists resist and reinvent their meanings.

Breaking Away & Seamus Heaney

It’s deceptively spare and simple in a manner that hides a genius of elegance and grace, which places it in the tradition of Ozu or Rohmer.

Why I Love: Little Fugitive

Francois Truffaut: “Our New Wave would never have come into being if it hadn’t been for the young American Morris Engel, who showed us the way to independent production with his fine movie The Little Fugitive.”

Thinking Makes it So: Platon Karataev and Epictetus

The harder his position became and the more terrible the future, the more independent of that position in which he found himself were the joyful and comforting thoughts, memories, and imaginings that came to him

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