“Sometimes I’m following the light. Sometimes I’m following the clouds. And sometimes I’m looking for something I do not know beforehand.” An interview with Torsten Richter
All I Had to Do Was Listen: An Interview with Torsten Richter
Musical X-Rays: A Story of Improvisation and Rebellion
A brief history of bootleg records printed on salvaged X-rays. “It’s easy to imagine a yearning, a dreaming and a longing for what you’ve been repressively denied. The forbidden often has an added excitement, an added expectation and ultimately, an added value.”
I Am Because You Are: An Interview with Tracy Jackson
Tracy Jackson’s work is full of questions: asked, pondered, answered, and asked again. A fine teeming network of ideas and philosophy ties the images together: ideas about what it means to interact with other humans and with the natural world around us, and about the transformative power of compassion, community, nonconformity, and creativity.
Magpies Mix Tape: Sweet Songs for Troubled Times
The backbone of this mix tape is songs on the subject of the love that makes us glow together with the light we all carry, so that we can keep out the darkness of ignorance, want, and cruelty.
Flesh in all of its beauty: Zola’s Nana and Saint Phalle’s Nanas
“Don’t make her witty, which would be a mistake. She is nothing but flesh, but flesh in all of its beauty. And, I repeat, a good-natured girl.”
Lauren Barnett’s Dream Polly Pockets
Polly Pockets that Lauren Barnett would buy as an adult.
Potawatomi Berry Rice from Indigikitchen
Potawatomi Berry Rice from Indigikitchen
In Search of a Smile
I was in the partial state of not knowing if I was awake or still dreaming; it had been another fitful uncomfortable night, mostly involving a donkey braying and the snores and […]
November Issue, 2023
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. As ever, submit, support, subscribe. And have a […]
Letter From the Editor November, 2023: Crickets
A cricket sings in my brambling dying herbs every autumn, tangled with the unruly thyme and the ever-flowering chives. I’ve never seen it but I look forward to its return every year […]
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