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Anatomy of a Pogrom
September 17, 2024
Members of Blood Tribe outside City Hall in Springfield, OH How does ethnic violence start, and how does it spread? Who uses it, and for what purpose? The...
Television is Dead. Long Live Television
September 15, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I write about what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid...
Notable Sandwiches #110: Lox
September 13, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, along my patient editor David Swanson, trawl the waters of Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches...
The Making (and Sanewashing) of Donald Trump
September 8, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #108: Lobster Roll
September 6, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my noble editor David Swanson, wade our way through the treacherous shoals of Wikipedia’s...
Raw Milk and the Collapse of Consensus Reality
September 3, 2024
Louis Pasteur didn’t set out to make milk safer. A scientific jack-of-all trades, born in 1822 in eastern France, Pasteur pioneered fields from...
Bell Riot Day
September 1, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
A Summer of Notable Sandwiches
August 30, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I tiptoe through the tulips of Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in...
TLDS August Culture Klatch
$ · August 25, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #107: Limburger
August 23, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my noble editor David Swanson, trudge our way through the moors of Wikipedia’s List of...
Begone, Panty-Sniffing Ghouls of the GOP
August 20, 2024
I am a feminist. Am I militant? Is there any other way to be a feminist right now? Am I strident? Am I unlikeable? Am I mean? Do I give you unpleasant...
Conventional Wisdom
August 18, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #106: Leberkäse
August 16, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my noble editor David Swanson, slough through the marshes of Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Hannibal, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love my Murder Husbands
$ · August 11, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #105: Lampredotto
August 9, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature in which my editor, David Swanson, and I track our prey through the underbrush that is Wikipedia’s List of...
On the Late, Great Hannibal Lecter
August 6, 2024
Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, Mads Mikkelsen, and Donald Trump as Hannibal Lecter About a year ago, Donald Trump started referencing Hannibal Lecter in his...
Lords of the Rings
$ · August 4, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #104: Kumru
August 2, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, plunge into the strange waters of Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
TLDS July Culture Klatch
July 28, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #103: Kottenbutter
July 26, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
You Cannot Predict the Future
July 23, 2024
I thought Hillary Clinton would win in 2016. I really did. And I wasn’t alone. Most of us did, including the people paid to predict such things. I was...
“I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party as your President.”
$ · July 21, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #102: Kokoretsi/Kokoreç
July 19, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
Missed Connections: A Brief History of Assassination Attempts
$ · July 14, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #101: Khao Jee Pâté
July 12, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
On Feeding My Graphomania
July 9, 2024
“Il Pleut” by Apollinaire, 1916 I have a half-baked, non-scientific theory about how writing works—not for everyone, of course, just my writing, the thing...
Chefs & Grub & Rock & Roll
June 30, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
A Look Back at 100 Notable Sandwiches
June 28, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where Talia and I wade through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
On the Gastronomy of Eating the Rich
June 25, 2024
Two years before I started a column about the cross-pollination between food and politics, I wrote for GQ about the origins and literal interpretations of...
Drinking the Kool-Aid
$ · June 23, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwich Heat Wave Special: In Praise of Cold Soup
June 21, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
A Note From Your Temporary Substitute Internet Dad
$ · June 16, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #100: Kaisers Jagdproviant
June 14, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
On Cults, Part 2: Follow the Leader
June 11, 2024
Jim Jones preaching at the Peoples Temple What’s the loneliest you’ve ever felt? The most scared? The most despairing? Was it a period of depression, or...
Hollywood: The Oral Histories
$ · June 9, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #99: Kabuli Burger
June 7, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
On Cults: Let's Talk About Sects
$ · June 2, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #98: Katsu Sando
May 31, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
On Cults, Part 1
May 28, 2024
This week, Donald Trump led a rally in my city. In the South Bronx, to be precise—it was a frenzied affair, the crowd reflecting a diversity that, if not...
TLDS May Culture Klatch
$ · May 26, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #97: Jucy Lucy
May 24, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I stumble our way through the strange and mutable document that is...
Supreme Injustices
May 19, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #96: Jibarito
May 17, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I and my longsuffering editor David Swanson stumble our way through the strange and mutable document...
Small Vices
May 14, 2024
I’m lucky enough to have a tiny garden in the middle of New York City, where space is at a premium and outdoor space even more so. It’s a patch of concrete...
Tales of the Fantastic
$ · May 12, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwich Tribute to Steve Albini
May 10, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I stumble our way through the strange and mutable document that is...
The Tempest: Stormy Daniels Revisited
May 7, 2024
Inspired by the testimony of Stormy Daniels in court today, we’re re-publishing a pair of stories that Talia wrote for the Village Voice six years ago, when...
Culture Club: Grab Bag
$ · May 5, 2024
Welcome back my own most beautiful darlings! I want to thank you for being paid subscribers—you’re helping me keep the lights on and keep doing what I love...
Notable Sandwiches #95: Jesuita
May 3, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I and my longsuffering editor David Swanson stumble our way through the strange and mutable document...
History Repeats Itself at Columbia
April 30, 2024
By David Swanson Columbia’s Low Memorial Library in 1968, and in 2024 Last night, as a group of activists took over Hamilton Hall just hours after Columbia...
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