Morgan Totah of Handmade Palestine interviews Palestinian artist Rand Dabboor.
A Palestinian Queen: Rand Dabboor Preserves Palestinian Culture Through Art
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Cartoonist Jackie Ormes’ Commentary on Black Life
“However, there is a need to reappraise Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger because in the span of each panel, Ormes’ voice rises to address how events such as McCarthyism and the murder of Emmett Till affected Black Americans.”
October Issue, 2024
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.
Letter From the Editor, October, 2024: Train Station Dreams
October ramblings.
Remembering Paul Matthews
A moving tribute from one painter to another.
A Garland of Melodies: Reimagining Ragamalas
A facinating article about a special category of miniature painting called ‘Ragamala,’ which is the pictorial representation of an Indian musical mode or melody which is called a ‘raga.’
Tell the Bees…Belief, Knowledge and Hypersymbolic Cognition
We would suggest that there is at work in this body of vulgar knowledge a form of collective intelligence about this existence in which we find ourselves, a kind of road map of life compiled by those who have gone before.
Fiction: Everybody Plays the Fool
The lights flicker and I fall to the ground in the tolling darkness.
Magpies’ Mixtape: Magpies’ Sampler
A playlist of songs we discovered because they were sampled in Hip Hop tracks.
A Courageous Voice from Central Europe: The Films of Věra Chytilová
Some thoughts on the remarkable career of Czech fillmmaker Věra Chytilová by Jan Čulík.
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