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.
October Issue, 2025
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
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.”
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.
August Issue, 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.
Illustrating a classic –revisiting artworks on The Conference of the birds
Art historian Soma Ghosh examines the many versions of illustrations for ‘The Conference of the birds’ or the ‘Mantiq al tair’ by Attar of Nishapur
July Issue, 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, July, 2025: The Point
Heat wave ramblings.
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