Notable Sandwiches: Pastrami Preview
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I invite you to pull up a table at the moveable feast that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Donald Trump's Dictator Chic
Last week, the hoax-busting website Snopes felt compelled to fact check the Oval Office. Specifically, a reader had written in, asking whether a viral photo...
Introducing... the Sword and the Sandwich Book Club!!
This is an announcement, and also a plea. I know times are hard all around, but it’s a particularly dismal time to be a journalist of any stripe right now....
Notable Sandwiches #131: Panuozzo
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I invite you to pull up a table at the moveable feast that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Who Benefits from Destroying the Department of Education
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can go ahead with its ambitious, ruinous plan of gutting the Department of Education, firing...
Notable Sandwiches #130: Panini
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my intrepid editor David Swanson and I take our seats at the big strange table that is Wikipedia’s List...
That Tears Shall Drown the Wind
And pity, like a naked new-born babe,Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsedUpon the sightless couriers of the air,Shall blow the horrid deed in...
Everyone Is Welcome to My Mountains
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I discuss what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. This...
Notable Sandwiches July 4th Special: Barbecue
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, led gently by my brilliant and long-suffering editor David Swanson, wade through the rough waters of...
Writing into the Wreck
I, for one, never asked to live in a collapsing empire. The feeling of what you thought to be solid ground turning to a shower of scree under your feet, the...
Notable Sandwiches #129: Pan Bagnat
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the movable-feast where my editor David Swanson and I pull up a chair at the strange table that is Wikipedia’s List of...
How to Survive Midsummer in New York
Tuesday, the greatest city in the world experienced one of its hottest days, and one of its coolest nights. By midday, temperatures in New York topped 100...
June Culture Chat
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I discuss what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. BECOME...
Notable Sandwiches #128: The Princess and the Pambazo
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the movable-feast where my editor David Swanson and I pull up a chair at the strange table that is Wikipedia’s List of...
Identity Sprain
Trump’s birthday parade In her masterpiece Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, the Nobel-Prize winning author and oral historian Svetlana Alexievich...
A Sunflower with Her Face in the Middle
Sometimes your world shrinks wildly: to the precise diameter of your mom’s aortic valve, for example, or the too-minute value that shows up on the pulse...
Notable Sandwich Special: Literary Heroes
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, where my editor David Swanson and I pull up a chair at the strange table that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches...
You Are What You Eat
Casey Means, Influencer General Casey Means, the Trump administration’s new nominee for Surgeon General of the United States, has a prescription for America....
Notable Sandwiches #127: Open-Faced
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the movable-feast feature where my editor David Swanson and I pull up a chair at the strange table that is Wikipedia’s...
On A.I.'s Artificial Incompetence
To even the most casual reader, a newspaper’s annual publishing schedule can be numbingly familiar, from the “look at the year ahead” in January, to the...