A poem from South African poet and journalist poet Gershwin Wanneburg.
Destiny’s stepchild
October 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.
Letter From the Editor, October, 2024: Train Station Dreams
October ramblings.
Remembering Paul Matthews
A moving tribute from one painter to another.
A Garland of Melodies: Reimagining Ragamalas
A facinating article about a special category of miniature painting called ‘Ragamala,’ which is the pictorial representation of an Indian musical mode or melody which is called a ‘raga.’
Taken in by Mercutio: on Carlos Gonzalez Olivo in Romeo & Juliet
From the moment Gonzalez made Mercutio real for me, I was inside the story, experiencing it as if for the first time. I was affronted: the cost of hate was too high, the sacrifice of youth beyond justifiable.
Tell the Bees…Belief, Knowledge and Hypersymbolic Cognition
We would suggest that there is at work in this body of vulgar knowledge a form of collective intelligence about this existence in which we find ourselves, a kind of road map of life compiled by those who have gone before.
Fiction: Everybody Plays the Fool
The lights flicker and I fall to the ground in the tolling darkness.
Magpies’ Mixtape: Magpies’ Sampler
A playlist of songs we discovered because they were sampled in Hip Hop tracks.
A Courageous Voice from Central Europe: The Films of Věra Chytilová
Some thoughts on the remarkable career of Czech fillmmaker Věra Chytilová by Jan Čulík.
