Notable Sandwich #6: Dear God, I Have to Write About a Bologna Salad Sandwich
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I faithfully chronicle the bizarre and twisted document that is Wikipedia’s List...
Ministry of Violence, Parts I—III
Edited by David Swanson This post contains all three parts of the “Ministry of Violence” series, published throughout October and November 2021, in one...
Ministry of Violence, Parts I—III
Edited by David Swanson This post contains all three parts of the “Ministry of Violence” series, published throughout October and November 2021, in one...
Ministry of Violence, Part III
All across the dreary little swamp of evangelical parenting books I’ve waded through over the past month, one woman floats to the surface again and again....
Ministry of Violence, Part III
All across the dreary little swamp of evangelical parenting books I’ve waded through over the past month, one woman floats to the surface again and again....
Notable Sandwich # 5: Death, Lies, and Baked Beans
Welcome to the fifth installment of Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I alphabetically work my way through Wikipedia’s sprawling, mammoth List of...
Notable Sandwich # 5: Death, Lies, and Baked Beans
Welcome to the fifth installment of Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I alphabetically work my way through Wikipedia’s sprawling, mammoth List of...
Ministry of Violence, Part II
The response to the first installment of this series exceeded every expectation I had. Many readers felt moved to share painful aspects of their childhoods,...
Ministry of Violence, Part II
The response to the first installment of this series exceeded every expectation I had. Many readers felt moved to share painful aspects of their childhoods,...
Notable Sandwiches #4: All Hole, No Bagel
Welcome to the fourth installment of Notable Sandwiches, a project where I chronicle Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches through essay, story, recipe, and...
Notable Sandwiches #4: All Hole, No Bagel
Welcome to the fourth installment of Notable Sandwiches, a project where I chronicle Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches through essay, story, recipe, and...
Ministry of Violence
This is the first of a three-part series devoted to corporal punishment in evangelical Christian households. Today’s piece focuses on views of corporal...
Ministry of Violence
This is the first of a three-part series devoted to corporal punishment in evangelical Christian households. Today’s piece focuses on views of corporal...
Notable Sandwiches #3: The Notorious B.E.C.
Onward we traipse through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches! I’ve been working on a heavy series on child abuse that will appear in your inbox for the...
Notable Sandwiches #3: The Notorious B.E.C.
Onward we traipse through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches! I’ve been working on a heavy series on child abuse that will appear in your inbox for the...
Brownshirts vs. the Board of Education
Consider, briefly, two organizations, which arose in the same state, sixty-six years apart. On October 26, 1954, five months after the monumental Supreme...
Brownshirts vs. the Board of Education
Consider, briefly, two organizations, which arose in the same state, sixty-six years apart. On October 26, 1954, five months after the monumental Supreme...
Notable Sandwiches #2: The Bacon Sandwich
Welcome to the second installment of Notable Sandwiches! In this ongoing and somewhat monumental project, I am going through the ever-changing, living...
Notable Sandwiches #2: The Bacon Sandwich
Welcome to the second installment of Notable Sandwiches! In this ongoing and somewhat monumental project, I am going through the ever-changing, living...
Starving for Jesus
Programming Note: For the first two weeks of this newsletter, in order to grow my audience and make as many people as possible aware that it exists, I’ve...
Starving for Jesus
Programming Note: For the first two weeks of this newsletter, in order to grow my audience and make as many people as possible aware that it exists, I’ve...
Notes on Some Cool Swords, Part 1
As the title and logo of this newsletter might presage, I’m pretty into swords. I like having a lot of bladed weaponry around for some complex psychosexual...
On Borscht
Borscht isn’t the same color as anything else. The type I had as a kid at Passover was a creamy purple, not quite mauve, not quite the color of a violet...
Fear and Pregnancy in the Age of Covid
Over the past few weeks, a thread on TheBump.com, one of the Internet’s largest pregnancy forums, devolved into an impassioned debate. It all began when user...
Notable Sandwiches #1: The Real American Hero
I’ve been obsessed with Wikipedia’s “List of Notable Sandwiches” for years. First of all, I love the idea of notable sandwiches — for so much in human...
What’s Your Favorite Sandwich?
There’s an old adage that says if you live by the sword, you die by the sword. It’s most likely cribbed from the Book of Matthew (KJV: “all they that take...
Memoirs of an Occasional Witcher
It’s three forty-five AM, and, knowing I have nowhere to go in the morning and no one to greet me when I wake, I’m sailing through the Skellige Islands, the...
Apocalypse Now
Back in November 2020, when Donald Trump was still president and covid-19 vaccines were months from reaching American arms, one TikTok user went viral for...
This Day We Fight
Hello! Welcome to the Sword and the Sandwich, a new venture in which I, Talia Lavin, am teaming up with my former editor from the Village Voice, David...