Heartfelt nonsense.
Magpies’ Mix Tape: Thanks to the birds for singing
Letter From the Editor, October, 2025: Build, Therefore, Your Own World
October ramblings.
Avian
Photographer Keith Goldstein shares beautiful photographs and thoughts on lessons learned from pigeons and sparrows.
Letter From the Editor, September 2025. Light is Sufficient to Itself.
September mood.
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.
I Like Trees: Neal Rantoul on Harry Callahan
With a few stories spanning a few decades, photographer Neal Rantoul shares his affection and admiration for fellow photographer, teacher, and friend Harry Callahan.
Letter From the Editor, August, 2025: Cloud Studies
With clouds, within seconds, you’re working from your memory of a thing that is as nebulous and beautiful and temperamental as memory itself. As confusing as memory, seen from within the mist, as perplexing seen from afar.
The Photo I Shouldn’t Have Taken.
“But maybe the image can serve as a metaphor — not just for that dusty street, or the ever-expanding city, or the long-suffering country — but for the sad state of a world capable of so much more.”
“I have a gun,” she lied
In Depression-era Appalachia, a tiny, feisty woman takes a stand for the vision of nature she believes in.
Flash fiction: Storm Warning
The river smell becomes the rain smell, and the rain comes, as it always does, expected but surprising, changing everything.
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