these cold winter days
on horseback
— my shadow is frozen
My Shadow is Freezing: Winter Poems from Matsuo Basho
January 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.
January Letter From the Editor: What the Thunder Said
GOOD MORNING!
Magpies’ Mix Tape: Magpies’ Best Songs of 2023
Here is some joyful music to help you usher in the new year, with fondness and best wishes from the Mapgies. May you all have a year full of creativity, kindness, happiness, and peace peace peace.
Una Giornata Particolare
Everyone should see this film. Some thoughts on Una Giornata Particolare, a film about the day Hitler took a train to Rome to visit Mussolini.
Drawing with Light: An Interview with Ralf Jacobs
There are patterns all around us that we recognize in Jacobs’ work. Similarly, with music, we respond to sound waves, we can’t see them but they affect our emotions. Looking at Jacobs’ drawings, it feels that he’s captured something no one else has: A new way of looking at something that we always see but don’t always notice.
Fiction: The Lost Man
New fiction from Dez Walker
Cones
“The cones began to be symbolic surrogates for human presence … or absence. Their serendipitous placement and interaction in their surroundings was somewhat surreal.”
My Afro-kwea diary: #1
My goal is to read solely Afro-kwea books for at least the next year. Aside from my anger at the dismissal of African lives elsewhere, this ambition was also motivated by a new wave of homophobia that has spread across the continent … My goal is to counter this intolerance by doing my bit to increase our visibility.
Rotten Luck
Objets trouvés in various stages of decomposition are transformed — by design, by vision, by respect — into objects of great beauty.
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