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.
Wendy Okeke’s Vision of Freedom
“Nigerian poet Wendy Okeke uses the dark recent past of political failure, youth angst, and government violence against its own citizens as a point of entrance in poems that resonate with sensuality,…
Black and White
Thoughts on light, color, painting, time passing, and the meaning of words from Robert Beck.
Mondrian Meets Dorian Gray: Patterns of Neoliberal Disregard
“The photos not only capture the accidental Mondrian-like effect of relegation of the maintenance of building envelopes to individual tenants, they also reveal a Dorian-Gray’s-like picture of the inefficiencies of neo-liberalism and…
Socialist Singer Barbara Dane Was a True American Radical
“Refusing to sacrifice her socialist principles for commercial success, folk-blues-jazz singer Barbara Dane dedicated her life to bringing music from around the world back to where it belonged: in the hands of…
Korean Folk Painting: Minhwa
“The power of Minhwa lies ultimately in the fact that it participates in a universal code — a common denominator for all living human beings, a core of desires and beliefs that…
Dorothea Lange and the Japanese-American Internment
The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until 2006
American Mythologies: Frank Capra Values
“The art of Frank Capra is very, very simple: It’s the love of people. Add two simple ideals to this love of people: the freedom of each individual, and the equal importance…
Excuse me, mountains. Excuse me, snow. I think I’m going to freeze.
She felt that somehow, in the wild night and storm, the still-ness that was underneath all sounds on the prairie had seized the cattle.
Letter from the editor, January 2025. Change all your strings.
Ramblings for a new quarter-century.
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