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,...