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In Praise of Righteous Vengeance
March 7, 2023
Scenes from “The Book of Esther” by Arthur Szyk Today is Purim, a Jewish holiday that you’re either intimately familiar with or know nothing about. Few...
Culture Club: Beef Broth with Joseph Roth
$ · March 5, 2023
Welcome to Culture Club, a new weekly feature where David and I (and sometimes both of us!) talk about what we’re reading, watching, and listening to each...
Notable Sandwiches #56: Denver
March 3, 2023
Author’s Note: As of this Sunday, I’ll be debuting a new feature, Culture Club, where David & I share the latest stuff we’ve been reading, watching and...
Disquiet on the Western Front
February 28, 2023
Felix Kammerer as Paul Bäumer in the Netflix production of All Quiet on the Western Front It’s common sense that any piece of art should be judged on its own...
Notable Sandwiches #55: Deli
February 24, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the baffling document that is Wikipedia’s...
How to Fight a Holy War
February 21, 2023
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Thanks so much for staying patient during the two-week break I took to try to quit smoking. Let the record show that as soon as I had to write...
Notable Sandwiches #54: The Dagwood
February 3, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the baffling document that is Wikipedia’s...
How to Conquer the Devil
January 31, 2023
Edited by David Swanson The first thing you have to understand about America is the devil is real here. Not a metaphor or a corny Halloween costume or some...
Notable Sandwiches #53: Cudighi
January 27, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the baffling document that is Wikipedia’s...
Kind of a Crazy Story
January 24, 2023
Edited by Talia Lavin The author in the Gubbio Studiolo at the Met, 2016 A manic episode begins with a stirring, followed by a spark, like seemingly dormant...
Notable Sandwiches #52: Cucumber
January 20, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Thank You For Not Smoking
January 17, 2023
Edited by David Swanson Robert Redford and Paul Newman on a cigarette break during the filming of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Hi all, I’m trying once...
Notable Sandwiches #51: The Cuban
January 13, 2023
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Anatomy of a Con: The Mark
January 9, 2023
Edited by David Swanson The scene this week in Brasília Last week was the anniversary of one failed coup, and the beginning of another. As the angry crowds...
Notable Sandwiches #50: Le Croque Monsieur et Le Croque Madame
January 6, 2023
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the bizarre document...
The Great Right-Wing Con Job
January 3, 2023
It’s 2023—once again I find that the 2020s feel like sci-fi dates to me and lament that we don’t have a Galactic Federation yet—and I’m so delighted to have...
Notable Sandwiches #49: Crisp
December 23, 2022
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the baffling document that is Wikipedia’s...
Gilt by Association
December 19, 2022
Edited by David Swanson A panel from the Arch of Titus in Rome It’s Chanukah, day two of the Festival of Lights, where we celebrate the victory of heroic...
Notable Sandwiches #48: Corned Beef
December 16, 2022
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
The Man Who Would Be King
December 12, 2022
Edited by David Swanson The Waidmannsheil hunting lodge in Bad Lobenstein, Thuringia, where Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss planned his coup The man lived a...
Notable Sandwich: Editor's Note
December 9, 2022
The Notable Sandwich Team has been hit by a series of maladies this week, and rather than deliver a half-hearted column, we’ve opted to marshal our resources...
Emma Goldman Book Club: Can a Revolutionary Enjoy Beauty?
$ · December 7, 2022
Emma is all about free love. And men… men are digging it. In a remarkably chaste and innocent way! The would-be suitors: Sasha Berkman, an uncompromising...
World War I, Part II: The King and Apis
December 5, 2022
The assassination and autopsy of Serbia’s King Alexander I and Queen Draginja (left) and the aftermath (right), 1903 In 1903, more than a decade before a...
Notable Sandwich #47: the Club Sandwich
December 2, 2022
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Emma Goldman Book Club: Bad Sex at the Corset Factory
November 30, 2022
Previously: Chapter 1 Welcome back to the Emma Goldman Book Club, as we go through Emma Goldman’s juicily frank memoir, “Living My Life,” one chapter a week....
Thanksgrieving
November 28, 2022
This is a specific story. A specific small giant has gone, a woman possessed of a certain kind of midcentury glamor that has largely passed from the world,...
Notable Sandwiches: Post-Thanksgiving Special
November 25, 2022
If you've enjoyed any of our recent content (and want to join our Emma Goldman Book Club) please consider a paid subscription! Black Friday deal: 20% off...
Curtained with Fire: World War I, a Century On
November 21, 2022
Edited by David Swanson The destruction of Ypres, France, 1917; the destruction of Bilohorivka, Ukraine, 2022 There’s a land war going on in Europe—millions...
Notable Sandwiches #46: Churrasco
November 18, 2022
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Introducing: the Sword & Sandwich Book Club!
November 15, 2022
Edited by David Swanson A 17-year-old Emma Goldman in 1886 (left), and in her 1901 mugshot Hello and welcome, especially to new subscribers! I assume a lot...
Notable Sandwiches #45: Chow Mein
November 11, 2022
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Notes from a Battlefield
November 8, 2022
Edited by David Swanson Manassas, Virginia, where America’s last Civil War began If you’re reading this and haven’t voted, go vote, obviously. Even if it...
Notable Sandwiches Special: 1909 Edition
November 4, 2022
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Just Asking Questions About Tucker Carlson's Murder Castle
November 3, 2022
Edited by David Swanson Acyn @AcynTucker: We're not the crazy people. You're the liars. 12:19 AM ∙ Nov 3, 20222,384Likes401Retweets“Just produce the police...
On Lying About Violence
November 1, 2022
Edited by David Swanson The Pelosis’ San Francisco home, via Google Earth A man breaks into a political leader’s home. It’s well known where she lives, and...
Notable Sandwiches #44: Choripán
October 28, 2022
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Kanye, Trump, and the Right's Antisemitic Zionism
October 25, 2022
Edited by David Swanson “Allegory of the Apocalypse” by Joseph Heintz the Younger, 1674 It’s a rare thing when explicit antisemitism makes big headlines....
Notable Sandwiches #43: Chopped Cheese
October 21, 2022
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the strange and ever-shifting document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Dispatches from the Goat Farm
October 18, 2022
Hi all! I promised my editor David (explicitly) and you (implicitly) that I would write a column today, which goes to show that I am a bit of an idiot: after...
Notable Sandwiches #42: Chivito
October 14, 2022
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the strange and ever-shifting document that...
Notable Sandwiches #42: Chivito
October 14, 2022
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the strange and ever-shifting document that...
Notes from a Vain and Selfish Lout
October 11, 2022
Edited by David Swanson A map from “The Phantom Tollbooth,” by Jules Feiffer. The Doldrums are to the West. I’ve retained very little from The Phantom...
Notes from a Vain and Selfish Lout
October 11, 2022
Edited by David Swanson A map from “The Phantom Tollbooth,” by Jules Feiffer. The Doldrums are to the West. I’ve retained very little from The Phantom...
Notable Sandwiches #41: Chipped Beef
October 7, 2022
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the strange and ever-shifting document that...
Notable Sandwiches #41: Chipped Beef
October 7, 2022
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the strange and ever-shifting document that...
The Onion Tattoo
October 4, 2022
“Onion Halved” by Edward Weston, 1930 As of today, it’s been exactly one year since I started this newsletter. And what a journey it’s been—we’ve talked...
The Onion Tattoo
October 4, 2022
“Onion Halved” by Edward Weston, 1930 As of today, it’s been exactly one year since I started this newsletter. And what a journey it’s been—we’ve talked...
Notable Sandwiches #40: The Chip Butty
September 30, 2022
Welcome to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which we trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
How Do I Pull Myself Out of The Dark?
September 27, 2022
Editor’s note: new political columns and Tal’s take on sandwiches will resume in October, after a major book deadline. — David Dear Banner Carrier, I’ve...
Notable Sandwiches #39: The Chimichurri Burger
September 23, 2022
Welcome to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which we trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
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