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March 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.

Robert S. Duncanson: Only Paint on His Mind

Duncanson’s skill established him not only in this county, but in England and throughout Europe as America’s first internationally renowned African American artist.

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.”

A Monumental Moment For the Masses

“A monument by nature pays homage to a person, place or event; however, as a public work of art, it should be reflective of democratic (not the political party, the ideology) principles…

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.”

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

“In a prose style that is accessible and credible, it dissects with scalpel-like precision all the hypocrisy of the totalitarian mindset and sounds a clear and timeless warning to us all about…

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