Photographer Keith Goldstein shares beautiful photographs and thoughts on lessons learned from pigeons and sparrows.
Avian
The Complexity and the Simplicity of Things: Neal Rantoul on Fred Sommer
Neal Rantoul writes with rare warmth and reverence about a transformative visit to photographer Fred Sommer.
A Weird and Joyful World: An Interview With Calef Brown
“The humans, human-animals and animal-animals in my books are the deliverers of the spirit of my work, and its substance — character, humor, wordplay, story, color, and visual pleasure.” An interview with Calef Brown.
A Box of Slides
A poem from Mike Ladd reflecting on time, memory, love and ephemerality
Triumphant Woe: Reimagining Climate Lament with Andromeda Turre
In our age of environmental collapse, socio-political polarization, and brutal warfare, the jazz composer Andromeda Turre has created a new album that pulls the listener into “a dark night of the senses” and configures a space of hope.
September, 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, September 2025. Light is Sufficient to Itself.
September mood.
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
“The wires of Dürer’s knots do, in a sense, chart the paths of entwined networks — of knowledge, commodities, cultural and material translation, repeating idealistically within a flourishing system.”
What is Fela’s True Legacy?
Fela was no gentleman; he used music as a weapon. He believed in a free Africa and had problems with authoritarian and military regimes.
Scattered Moments from my Days as a Domestic Truck Courier
A sketchbook of memories from painter Joel Adas’ time as a courier for the Brooklyn Museum.
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