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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
$ · December 10, 2023
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Eight Links for Chanukah
December 8, 2023
Happy Chanukah! Talia is presently turning in her revised book manuscript and David is otherwise indisposed, so in lieu of a sandwich column we're presenting...
Autocracy Now!
December 5, 2023
As I write these words, an American election is going on, in the way that American elections go on, and on, and on—years and months of un-fun pageantry as...
Regarding Henry
$ · December 3, 2023
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Notable Sandwiches #77: Guajolota
December 1, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the odd mutable ranks of Wikipedia’s List of...
On the Big Terrible Thing
November 28, 2023
A week ago, I picked up Matthew Perry’s memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, a book about a life plagued by addiction that came out a year...
Talking Turkey
November 21, 2023
Howdy all, David and I are taking the week off to rest and recharge (aka: move house, and frantically work on book revisions, respectively), so we’re leaving...
Full Windsor
$ · November 19, 2023
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Notable Sandwich Notes
November 17, 2023
It’s been a busy week here at S&S Industries, for a variety of reasons both personal and professional. So when we realized that the regularly scheduled...
Fuck You and Your Word-Stealing Machine
November 14, 2023
The Luddites: Man vs Machine This week, The New Yorker, an august magazine from which I resigned in national disgrace five years ago, dedicated its entire...
Master of Tasks
$ · November 12, 2023
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Notable Sandwiches #76: Gua Bao
November 10, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Israel-Palestine: 100 Years of Coverage
November 7, 2023
1932 fundraising map for a Jewish State With Talia focused on one last book deadline, I decided to use this opportunity to try to make some kind of sense of...
Ekphrasis
$ · November 5, 2023
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Notable Sandwiches #75: Grilled Cheese
November 3, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Halloween Column: Hexes for Your Exes
October 31, 2023
Last week, as part of my general declaration of witchcraft and retirement from society, I offered to hex your exes if you wrote in with a request. Today is...
Christopher Lee: The Lord of Horror
$ · October 29, 2023
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Notable Sandwiches #74: The Glasgow Oyster
October 27, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
I Have Decided to Become a Witch
October 24, 2023
“The Witch” by Andy Warhol, 1981 In accordance with the season (spooky) and apropos of my current mood (desolate and capricious) I have decided I am going to...
A Brief History of New York Punk
$ · October 22, 2023
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Notable Sandwiches #73: The Gerber
October 20, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is...
America's Apocalyptic Cheerleaders
October 17, 2023
“One of the things I think about a lot—for self-preservation reasons—is how a particularly odious swath of evangelicals in this country are Real Weird About...
All the Things I Want
October 15, 2023
Late Saturday night I found myself writing a piece of antipropaganda. It turned into something between a poem and a shopping list. I confess lately I have...
Notable Sandwiches #72: The Gatsby
October 13, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is...
Speech and Speechlessness
October 10, 2023
“Girl Before a Mirror” by Pablo Picasso, 1932 In her new book, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World, the author Naomi Klein offers a meditation on...
The Making of Donald Trump: 2000-2015
$ · October 8, 2023
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Notable Sandwiches #71: Fried Brain
October 6, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my noble editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the ever-shifting document that is...
American Noir, Part I
October 3, 2023
A man with a troubled past sits behind a desk and a woman — in a hat and veil or a clinging sheath number or a pressed suit depending on the decade — walks...
The Making of Donald Trump: Parts I — IV
$ · October 2, 2023
Over the last few months I’ve been going through the media’s coverage of Donald Trump, from his arrival on the New York real estate scene to his dalliances...
It's Always Midnight in Petroleum City
$ · October 1, 2023
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Notable Sandwiches #70: Fricasse
September 29, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the strange and mutable document that is...
The Confession
September 26, 2023
“The Sun” by Edvard Munch, 1911 - 1916 I am by genes and time and bad luck a madwoman. A madwoman is shut in her own mind, but she can speak more freely than...
Gone fishin'
September 12, 2023
Hi beloved readers, With me having just handed in the manuscript for my second book (about the Christian Right, much of it inspired by the work I did for...
Labor Pains and Gains
$ · September 3, 2023
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Notable Sandwiches #69: French Dip
September 1, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, a weekly feature in which Talia and I nibble our way through the bonkers document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
The Christian Right's Masculinity Problem
August 29, 2023
There’s a diagram that’s instantly familiar to a good many people who have been educated as evangelical Christians. It was originally designed and...
The Making of Donald Trump: The Nineties
$ · August 27, 2023
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Notable Sandwiches #68: Francesinha e Francesinha Poveira
August 25, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, a weekly feature in which Talia and I nibble our way through the bonkers document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
The Rise & Fall & Rise & Fall & Rise & Fall of Rudy Giuliani
August 23, 2023
By the time you read this, Rudy Giuliani will have surrendered at the Fulton County jail in Georgia for his role in the racketeering case against Donald...
What is "The Great American Novel"?
$ · August 20, 2023
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Notable Sandwich Special: Flashback
August 18, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, a weekly feature in which Talia and I nibble our way through the bonkers document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Herman Melville Goes to Maui
$ · August 13, 2023
Ed. Note: When my grandparents moved to Maui in the 1930s, they settled in Lahaina. That’s where my grandfather was as he watched several Japanese bombers...
Notable Sandwich #67: The Fool's Gold Loaf
August 11, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, a weekly feature in which my editor David Swanson and I nibble our way through the bonkers document that is Wikipedia’s...
The Making of Donald Trump: The Eighties
August 8, 2023
In Sunday’s Culture Club post for paid subscribers, we took a look at how the media covered Donald Trump’s rise in 1970’s New York, as the flashy real-estate...
The Making of Donald Trump
$ · August 6, 2023
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Notable Sandwiches #66: Fluffernutter
August 4, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the bizarre document that is Wikipedia’s List...
The Christian Right's Deal With the Devil
August 1, 2023
“Witches' Sabbath” by Francisco Goya, 1821-23 It was a frigid desert-winter day on January 15, 1992, when a couple on the run were apprehended by Las Vegas...
The Village Voice's Hip-Hop Nation
$ · July 30, 2023
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Oppenheimer, Shatterer of Worlds
$ · July 23, 2023
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A Killer Reading List
$ · July 16, 2023
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