How to Stay Alive and Horny Under Authoritarianism
Sophia Parnok (1885-1933) was born in Taganrog, Russia—Anton Chekhov’s hometown, on the sea of Azov—two decades or so before her country exploded. Born into...
When the Roman Empire is your Roman Empire
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Notable Sandwiches #116: Melt
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, led gently by my brilliant and long-suffering editor David Swanson, wade through the rough waters of...
Women's Freedom Is On The Ballot
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations for premium subscribers. Tonight, a slight change of pace:...
Notable Sandwiches #115 (Spooky Edition): Medianoche
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, creep through the haunted garden of Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Make Way For the Feminist Backlash: A Chat with Moira Donegan
This whole election smacks of gender. It's a referendum on women's humanity and bodily autonomy, up against the crudest misogyny on offer—primarily from the...
TLDS October Culture Klatsch
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The Best American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I travel the world on wings made of bread, chronicling Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Sword & the Sandwich x Know Your Enemy
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #114: Meatball
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I travel down the trail of Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in...
Wild Faith is Here
Today is a big one for the team here at S&S Industries: at long last, Talia’s new book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America, is out in...
Roy Cohn: A Deep Dive Into a Piece of Shit
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I write about what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid...
Notable Sandwiches #113: Marmite
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I travel the world on wings made of bread, chronicling Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Grief Music
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Countdown to Wild Faith
With Talia celebrating Rosh Hashanah this week, and a busy stretch ahead for both of us, team S&S is taking today off, before we return for our next...
Dispossessed: An Excerpt
Today we're honored and delighted to run an excerpt from Désirée Zamorano's recently published novel Dispossessed, a work of historical fiction that is...
TLDS September Culture Klatsch
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I write about what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers....
Notable Sandwiches #112: Marmalade
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, led gently by my brilliant and long-suffering editor David Swanson, meander down the path of...
Children of the Revolution
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Notable Sandwiches #111: The Luther Burger
Welcome to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the ever-evolving document that is Wikipedia’s...