“The cemetery stood on an island. People said that one day the island would disappear beneath the water. My father wanted to record the place before that happened. So we began keeping notes and drawings of everything we noticed there.”
Three Stops
Snake Journey
A beautiful meditation on personal and communal memory, art, and an unfathomable landscape from poet Michael Ladd.
Fiction: Moving Day
The sixth trip up the stairs I see them. Sometimes you can go the whole day without seeing anyone, and I thought it was going to be like that. Little did I know.
Raven Season: Karen Clarkson
“The mischievous Raven existed at that time because he always had.”
Repetition, Resistance, and Remembering in the Prints of Elizabeth Catlett
“Through appropriation, the vitality of Black history, literature, and poetry—and the importance of preserving and propagating this legacy—are interwoven into Catlett’s imagery, serving as both an expression of resilience and a force for resistance.”
October Issue, 2026
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.
Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge
“Mastering the full range of subjects taught in medieval universities normally required many years of hard and expensive study. From the thirteenth century on, however, an anonymous work known as the Ars notoria promised, through diagrams, incantations, and arcane rituals, to rapidly transmit to scholars the total knowledge of anything they might need.”
Fiction: Every Dream Come True
“And though it’s always sweet sorrow to part, you know you’ll always remain in my heart, Good night, sleep tight and pleasant dreams to you, Here’s a wish and a prayer that every dream comes true.”
Mykyta Ryzhykh: Three Poems
3 poems from Mykyta Ryzhykh
Being or Living
In a world that constantly pushes us toward speed, replacement, adaptation, and whatever comes next, perhaps the most meaningful form of resistance is not to stop time. It is to commit enough time to something that it can begin to matter.
