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.
November Issue, 2026
The Ghost in White: Edo Horror and the Birth of Sadako
In the age of endlessly reproducible digital images, the deeper metaphor feels even more familiar:
The haunted image no longer needs a well, a cassette, or even a television. It only needs somewhere to be seen—and someone willing to pass it on.
Bonus Track: In the Street again
Bonus track.
Useless Reportage: Notes on Helen Levitt’s In the Street
“If in the film the streets seem to be mostly battleground, her photographs construe it more as a theatre. Levitt was after the epiphanic universal that might emerge from the quotidian.”
The Apocalyptic Image
I use the term here deliberately to recover this older semantic association with disclosure, rather than using it in the narrower modern sense of apocalyptic cinema as a genre concerned primarily with catastrophe, end times, or eschatological judgment. At the same time, the term should not be detached from the longer history of apocalyptic discourse, in which revelation is often connected to transcendent, cosmological, or eschatological visions.
October Issue, 2026
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.
Being or Living
In a world that constantly pushes us toward speed, replacement, adaptation, and whatever comes next, perhaps the most meaningful form of resistance is not to stop time. It is to commit enough time to something that it can begin to matter.
September Issue, 2026
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.
The Heptagon Project
Heptagon is an audio project exploring social, cultural, and artistic avenues within the limitless genre of electronic music.
Criticism in World Literature and Cinema: A Unified Perspective
At its core, criticism asks a fundamental question: how do artistic works produce meaning?
