“I sit on the wall and watch a fisherman wrangle his net; the sea is dark and a little choppy, and I feel an overwhelming sense of sadness.”
Alexandria, The End of the Affair
Female
Some thoughts on Female, a pre-code film starring Ruth Chatterton.
My Afro-kwea diary: #2
My Afro-kwea Journal, entry #2: The Death of Vivek Oji By Akwaeke Emezi
Inside the Camera Obscura: An Interview with Michele FariNelly
“It’s art to cook, garden, dance, sing, play an instrument, and compose music. It’s art to create clothes from a piece of fabric or to “see” a piece of furniture within a pile of wood. If we have the chance to imprint our stylistic signature in what we do, we are present in the works produced, despite our absence.”
My Shadow is Freezing: Winter Poems from Matsuo Basho
these cold winter days
on horseback
— my shadow is frozen
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.
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