An independent quarterly · Est. 2023

Margin

A journal of
overlooked places.

Issue 14 Autumn 2026

Low
Water.

When the water recedes,
what comes back into view?

A river’s memory. A city after hours. Roots in concrete. This season, we look at the places left behind — and the lives that keep them.

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Inside the issue

Four stories. Other ways of seeing.

01 / Cover story

The River Keeps
Its Receipts

By Imani Vale

Along a drought-exposed riverbed, shop ledgers, bottle caps, and vanished street plans surface together. A field essay about civic memory and what infrastructure tries to forget.

Field essay Memory & infrastructure

02 / After hours

Night Bus Atlas

By Tomás Iriarte

The unofficial geography drawn by cleaners, nurses, bakers, and drivers while a city's daytime map is asleep.

03 / Common ground

Concrete Orchards

By Meera Das

Residents tend fruit trees in the unfinished floors of a financial district, negotiating shade, ownership, and the patience of roots.

04 / Still life

A Language for Empty Pools

By Hana Mori

Photographs and short notes from public baths retired after the last swimmer, where tile patterns keep directing bodies that no longer arrive.

Previously,
in Margin.

From the archive

  1. Issue 13

    After the Last Train

  2. Issue 12

    Borrowed Ground

  3. Issue 11

    The Weather Indoors

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