“The lovely words ′human kindness′ have become so trivial […] and yet this should be the goal of our striving.”
Johann Gottfried Herder: Faith as silent spirituality
Rossellini’s War Trilogy
Rossellni never looks away. He never flinches. But he never misses an opportunity to celebrate what’s good in humanity either.
An Interview With Don Julien: When the world is quiet
We were grateful for the opportunity to ask Don Julien a few questions about his photography.
When Photography Asks Questions of Destiny and Known or Unknown Outcomes
Photographer Ololade Koleosho believes that the lives of single mothers dwells somewhere on the “delicate balance between struggle and celebration.”
How Free is Free: Ben Shahn, the Statue of Liberty, and the History of American Art
Historians of American art are engaged in a search for ways in which to speak meaningfully and broadly about contested traditions and about both the promises and limits of the country’s national iconography and history, to a nation fragmented along racial, ethnic, class, and religious lines.
Flash fiction: Storm Warning
The river smell becomes the rain smell, and the rain comes, as it always does, expected but surprising, changing everything.
A Visitation
“Whatever had happened—the way the clouds moved, where the light shone, what was going through my head, that radiance—was another chapter in a story that began a half-century ago.”
Magpies Mix Tape: Ain’t Going to Worry No More
A playlist of songs about putting your worries aside and moving forward, for anyone who might need a reminder that we’re all in it together.
January Issue, 2025
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, January 2025. Change all your strings.
Ramblings for a new quarter-century.
