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.
April Issue, 2024
Magpies
I am a filmmaker, illustrator, graphic designer and copy editor.
Letter From the Editor, April 2024
And when you wake you’re alone in a field, plagued with vague doubts and furies, but with memories of flying. All of this is you, your breath, your spirit, your soul, your self.
Magpies Mix Tape: Rambling
A Magpies mix tape of rambling songs.
Elia Suleiman’s Palestine Trilogy: The Tragic Absurdity of Occupation
A thoughtful examination of Elia Suleiman’s strange but beautiful Palestinian trilogy of films by writer Jim Poe.
The Acceptance of Sorrow: An Interview with Wormwood Stubbs
We are so grateful for the chance to talk to Wormwood Stubbs about his remarkable paintings.
Ellen Harvey: The Disappointed Tourist
The Disappointed Tourist tries to create a level playing field in which personal losses and larger cultural losses can meet and be recognized and create a new conversation about our love for our physical environment, harnessing nostalgia to create empathy rather than division.
A Dialog With Place: An Interview with Ron Donoughe
“I want the viewer to become part of the scene through memory and experience.” An interview with Pittsburgh painter Ron Donoughe.
Storyteller and Gentleman: What is the Measure of Mike Ejeagha’s Influence on Highlife Music in Nigeria?
“Folklore rules the mythical landscape of Mike Ejeagha’s music; his lyrical calibrations are more about the prosody of folksongs and folktales; his language of the music is Igbo, and the purpose is didactic,” Brilliant essay about Mike Ejeagha by Chimezie Chika.
Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee
“Doris Lee’s example shows us that humor can be as legitimate as seriousness, simplicity as valid as complexity, joy as rational a response to one’s time as despair — and that they can and do exist together at the same time.”
Spirit of the Beehive: Surviving Tyrannies
“The night is the time when the order of the day loses its grip, the time when spirits come out. Ana calls the Spirit again, repeating her name: ‘Soy Ana’, and we hear the sound of the train as if the Spirit has responded.” A beautiful essay by Magda Mariamidze
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