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June 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.

Living Ghosts: In Times That Don’t Exist

The supernatural does not require foggy graveyards; it is closer and far more mundane. It manifests in a midnight kitchen, a crowded yet silent subway car, or a house where silence moves…

Potholes and Potshots: Yvonne Rainer

“From descriptions of individual feminine experience floating free of both social context and narrative hierarchy, to descriptions of individual feminine experience placed in radical juxtaposition against historical events, to explicitly feminist speculations…

Liminal Bingo

“Part of what I wanted was to create an excuse for people to find themselves in places they might pass by often but never actually stand in. Ditches. Behind shopping centers. Meadows…

Every Portrait Tells a Lie

“I might add that portraiture is also a tender art. It tries to hold onto what can’t be contained, which is life itself and a clear view of it.”

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