Notable Sandwiches #25: The Carrozza
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Hope and Woe and Roe v. Wade
Edited by David Swanson Radish seedlings (Talia Lavin Private Collection) I find myself unable to stop planting things. Most of the seeds I’ve sown haven’t...
Hope and Woe and Roe v. Wade
Edited by David Swanson Radish seedlings (Talia Lavin Private Collection) I find myself unable to stop planting things. Most of the seeds I’ve sown haven’t...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XVIII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, and XVII “С рыбалки (From Fishing)” by Boris...
Notable Sandwiches #24: Butterbrot
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
This Was Always a Holy War
Edited by David Swanson “The Nightmare” by Henry Fuseli (1781) The people who make the bad laws always talk about God, I notice, especially when they’re...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XVII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, and XVI “Лесной ручей (Чернолесье) (Forest Stream)”...
Notable Sandwiches #23: Bun Kebab
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, nibble week by week through the bonkers...
My Week with the Witches
Author’s Note:I love writing this newsletter—or, well, I enjoy sending off the missives once I’m done agonizing over them, at any rate—and I love the...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XVI
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, and XV “Cheder” by Irving Amen, 1958 In the morning, the...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XV
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII and XIV “Village” by Marc Chagall, 1975 Chapter 7 The days grew...
Passover!
Spring blossoms Hey y’all, I’m taking off this next week to celebrate Passover. For one thing, writing about sandwiches during a period of leavenless...
Child Brides and the "Grooming" Lie
Edited by David Swanson Some months ago I wrote about the “Critical Race Theory” panic sweeping school boards and slate legislatures, a fact-free but...
Child Brides and the "Grooming" Lie
Edited by David Swanson Some months ago I wrote about the “Critical Race Theory” panic sweeping school boards and slate legislatures, a fact-free but...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIV
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII and XIII A man, in a muffler cap and sable hat, thrust his head in...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIV
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII and XIII A man, in a muffler cap and sable hat, thrust his head in...
Notable Sandwiches #22: Broodje Kroket
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Notable Sandwiches #22: Broodje Kroket
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
How to Deface a Swastika
Edited by David Swanson The final mast(r/place) on Reddit Over the weekend, I—along with a few million other people—became transfixed by an experiment on...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and XII When the congregation rose to engage in silent prayer, Yossel...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and XII When the congregation rose to engage in silent prayer, Yossel...
Morning and Evening: Editor's Note
If last week’s installment of Talia’s novella seemed somewhat disjointed, or even post-modern, this was an unintended consequence of an editorial snafu on my...
Morning and Evening: Editor's Note
If last week’s installment of Talia’s novella seemed somewhat disjointed, or even post-modern, this was an unintended consequence of an editorial snafu on my...
Notable Sandwiches #21: The Butifarra
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Six Months of Swords and Sandwiches
Edited by David Swanson Dear readers! (Swordsmen? Sand-Witchers?) Because this week marks half a year of this newsletter being in existence, I thought I’d...
Notable Sandwiches #20: The British Rail Sandwich
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, where I, in the company of my editor David Swanson, nibble through the baroque and demented document...
Notable Sandwiches #20: The British Rail Sandwich
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, where I, in the company of my editor David Swanson, nibble through the baroque and demented document...
A Country Indifferent to Death
Edited by David Swanson There’s an old saying, cobbled together from Pearl S. Buck and Hubert Humphrey and often misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi, that the...
A Country Indifferent to Death
Edited by David Swanson There’s an old saying, cobbled together from Pearl S. Buck and Hubert Humphrey and often misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi, that the...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X and XI Edited by David Swanson “Ярмарка в деревне (Fair in the Village)” by...
Notable Sandwiches #19: The Breakfast Sandwich
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, where I nibble through the strange and twisted document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
War Music: A Short History of the Ukrainian Language
Edited by David Swanson How do you contextualize a war? The realities of it are beyond comprehension, of course: cities bombarded, the number of dead in the...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XI
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX and X Edited by David Swanson “A Red Horse” by Marc Chagall, 1938 By the time...
Notable Sandwiches #18: The Irish Breakfast Roll
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, with the help of my editor David Swanson, nibble through the absolutely bonkers...
The Languages of War
Edited by David Swanson “Language is the soul of the nation": Protesters at the Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language in Kyiv, 2019 Insofar as the war in...
Morning and Evening, Pt. X
Previously published: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII and IX Edited by David Swanson “Осенний лес (Autumn forest)” by Ivan...
Life in Stolen Skillets: Wartime Poetry from Ukraine
Edited by David Swanson For today’s newsletter, I initially set out to write about the Irish breakfast roll for our regular Friday series on Notable...
The Battle of Kyiv
Edited by David Swanson The Hall of Remembrance at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War In the National Museum of the...
Morning and Evening, Pt. IX
Edited by David Swanson Previously published: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII Step by step Yossel rose up the column of cold...
Notable Sandwiches #17: The Bratwurst
Edited by Talia Lavin Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, where my editor and I nibble through the magnificent and confounding document...
Ukraine on a Knife's Edge
Edited by David Swanson The Russian Bear, back on the prowl As Russian troops embark upon what may be anything from an extension of the long and grinding war...
Morning and Evening, Pt. VIII
Previously published: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII A drop of wax landing painfully on his knuckles jolted Yossel from this...
Notable Sandwiches #16: How Do You Solve a Problem like the Bosna?
This is the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I nibble through the strange and marvelous document that is Wikipedia’s List of...
Situation Normal, All Trucked Up
The first thing that strikes me about the “Freedom Convoy” chats on Telegram is how big they are. This isn’t my first sally into the far-right’s favorite...
Morning and Evening, Pt. VII
Previously published: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V and VI Hinda lay on the earth with her white limbs out, her dress crumpled to her waist,...
Notable Sandwiches #15: Bologna
This is the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I nibble through the strange and marvelous document that is Wikipedia’s List of...
On Antifascism
What is antifascism? The simplest explanation is also the truest: antifascism exists in relation to fascism as antimatter does to matter—its opposite, and,...
Morning and Evening, Pt. VI
Previously published: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV and V Content note: this chapter contains a scene depicting sexual violence. Chapter 3 Yossel...
Notable Sandwiches #14: Bocadillo, A Little Mouthful
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I nibble my way through the baffling and extraordinary document that is...
How To Report Subversive Books And Teachers in YOUR School
Last week, Virginia’s newly-elected Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin told a local conservative radio station that he had set up a tip line where concerned...