All of the articles from the past month for people who like to savor their magpies’ tidings as an issue.
February Issue, 2024
An Anchored Friendship
Listen to this neo-noir short story that features the Iowa State Police, a displaced bounty hunter, a broken farmer, and his local cop acquaintance caught in a Mexican stand-off in a gasoline-soaked corn field.
Vietnam Travelogue
Pia De Girolamo shares a travelogue recounting observations and art from her trip to Vietnam.
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.”
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.
To Be a Part of This World: An Interview With Toby Rosenbloom
“Every little painting is just an attempt to capture a feeling.” An interview with Toby Rosenbloom
I Am Because You Are: An Interview with Tracy Jackson
Tracy Jackson’s work is full of questions: asked, pondered, answered, and asked again. A fine teeming network of ideas and philosophy ties the images together: ideas about what it means to interact with other humans and with the natural world around us, and about the transformative power of compassion, community, nonconformity, and creativity.
Flesh in all of its beauty: Zola’s Nana and Saint Phalle’s Nanas
“Don’t make her witty, which would be a mistake. She is nothing but flesh, but flesh in all of its beauty. And, I repeat, a good-natured girl.”
Lauren Barnett’s Dream Polly Pockets
Polly Pockets that Lauren Barnett would buy as an adult.
Letter From the Editor November, 2023: Crickets
A cricket sings in my brambling dying herbs every autumn, tangled with the unruly thyme and the ever-flowering chives. I’ve never seen it but I look forward to its return every year […]
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