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.
Beneath the Streets — Helen Levitt’s Subway Photographs
“Helen Levitt’s pictures haunt like intimate ghosts – ever present, never forceful, curious, receptive.”
George Bellows in New York: Rambles and Excavations
As a flâneur of insatiable curiosity, he abandoned the main boulevards for the lushness of Riverside Park, the crowds at Madison Square, the excavation site for Pennsylvania Station, the kids at play…
Teeming Life: Killer of Sheep
“Burnett’s cinematic poetry arises from the hundred small “sensory-motor disconnections” of every damn day, gaps and dislocations from which a sad but resilient emotion flows.”
My Afro-kwea journal #3: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
“First of all, let me say: Chinelo Okparanta, you have my heart. For daring to write a novel that tackles so many taboos – queer love, religion, politics – all wrapped in…
The ANEW Artists’ Alliance Third Annual Group Show
“When you find other people who like to do what you like to do and have the same visions, you want to be with them. You feel like you’re doing something worthwhile.”…
Mother Courage and Her Children
“I see that. In one sense it’s a war because of all the cheating, plunder, rape, and so forth, but it’s different from all other wars because it’s a religious war and…
The Taste of Memory
The liner notes of Jimmy Smith’s Home Cooking describe a certain song as a series of blue truths. And here we are, all exploring our blue truths. All of us turning to…
Letter From the Editor, March 2024: In the Pigeon Spaces
Late winter ramblings from the pigeon spaces of the mind.
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