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.
July Issue, 2023
Letter From the Editor, July 2023. Lessons From Clio in Clover
And it occurred to me that there’s nowhere else I needed to be, nowhere more important than this place at this time, standing on a cool and warming June morning with Clio rolling in the clover. This is the first lesson.
As Pretty as an Airport
“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.'” – Douglas Adams
An Interview with Tidings of Magpies by Gershwin Wanneburg
Brilliant South African writer and editor Gershwin Wanneburg interviews Tidings of Magpies!
Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis
Masculin Feminin is a film about the culture of youth, the sincere, foolish, self-absorbed search for meaning and identity. Godard, who was thirty-five when the film was shot, approaches the subject as an outsider, a documentarian, at once fascinated, amused, and dismayed by all that he sees.
The Allegorist’s Vision of Alchemy and Delusions (Mordancages)
In Appalachian folklore, there is a belief that through witchcraft one can shapeshift, changing one’s physical form … The photographs in this project, which also shapeshift, are evidence of my sorcery.
Magpies Mix Tape: Soul-selling Stories
A small selection of the haunting, plaintive, wild, human, soulful songs of Tommy Johnson and Robert Johnson, two blues musicians who sold their soul to the devil at the crossroads.
In This Our Land
In this our land we have a term for suffering, shege. The proverbial phrase seeing shege is a present participle tense that describes the action of going through it — suffering. And there’s levels to it you see, because in this our land we’re all in the same hell, just different levels.
Was buying a house in Syria the brightest decision I ever made?
I am now forever connected to that city but not because of the house, because of the people and relationships that were forged over that time.
Ezra Jack Keats: The Joy of Being Alive
“My book would have him there simply because he should have been there all along.”
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