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...
Morning and Evening, Pt. V
Previously published: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III and IV Yossel feared both his mother’s rage and her sorrows, which came on without warning. In...
Notable Sandwiches #13: The BLT
Welcome to the weekly feature where, every Friday, I take another bite from the nigh-inexhaustible and deeply weird resource that is Wikipedia’s List of...
The Devil in D.C.
When you close your eyes, what do you imagine lives in the darkness beside you? There are so many things too small to see—microbes and molecules, protons and...