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.
Memory Beyond the Mind
“Taken together, these examples challenge the idea that the past disappears once it is no longer actively remembered. The past often remains present in quieter and less obvious ways. It stays in…
Mistress of a New World
The Blazing World — via a dizzy mix of animal-human hybrids, Immaterial Spirits, and burning foes — tells of a woman’s absolute rule as Empress over a parallel planet. Emily Lord Fransee…
The musical conquests of Goopy and Bagha
“Warmth and empathy are qualities found in all of Ray’s movies, but this genre allows him to display them in their rawest, least guarded form.”
The Lexicon of Facism
“Langston Hughes’ words sent chills down my spine. It gave me the wherewithal to truly understand that fascism is not at all a foreign term, nor is it strictly related to Europe…
Night of the Long Knives: One Night in Istanbul
‘It’s going to be a long night,’ I said. And it was.
Angry Animals at the Muzeum Czartoryskich
A trip to the Muzeum Czartoryskich with Lauren Barnett.
Fifty Years After Soweto: A Struggle Without Documentation Is Not a Struggle
“South Africa’s anti-apartheid photographers did not merely record brutality. They preserved evidence, built collective memory, and transformed the camera into a weapon of political education and international solidarity.”
Do you like to dance for free? Letter From the Editor, August, 2026
On a walk through the hot streets of our summer town, I caught a glimpse of a tattered flier on a telephone pole. It was for an event in June; read by…
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