A Country That Devours Its Children (Audio)
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A Country That Devours its Children
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes painted “Saturn Devouring His Son” in a period of madness that consumed his latter years. It was then that the Spanish master...
A Country That Devours its Children
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes painted “Saturn Devouring His Son” in a period of madness that consumed his latter years. It was then that the Spanish master...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XX
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, and XIX “Софія Київська (Sophia of...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XX
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, and XIX “Софія Київська (Sophia of...
Notable Sandwiches #26: Canadian Hot Chicken
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Notable Sandwiches #26: Canadian Hot Chicken
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
White Supremacy's Warped Rationale
In the aftermath of any mass slaughter in this country, the conversation turns, in desultory fashion, to the issue of mental illness. Tucker Carlson,...
White Supremacy's Warped Rationale
In the aftermath of any mass slaughter in this country, the conversation turns, in desultory fashion, to the issue of mental illness. Tucker Carlson,...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIX
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII and XVIII “Mother by the oven” by Marc...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIX
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII and XVIII “Mother by the oven” by Marc...
Notable Sandwiches #25: The Carrozza
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Notable Sandwiches #25: The Carrozza
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Hope and Woe and Roe v. Wade
Edited by David Swanson Radish seedlings (Talia Lavin Private Collection) I find myself unable to stop planting things. Most of the seeds I’ve sown haven’t...
Hope and Woe and Roe v. Wade
Edited by David Swanson Radish seedlings (Talia Lavin Private Collection) I find myself unable to stop planting things. Most of the seeds I’ve sown haven’t...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XVIII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, and XVII “С рыбалки (From Fishing)” by Boris...
Notable Sandwiches #24: Butterbrot
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
This Was Always a Holy War
Edited by David Swanson “The Nightmare” by Henry Fuseli (1781) The people who make the bad laws always talk about God, I notice, especially when they’re...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XVII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, and XVI “Лесной ручей (Чернолесье) (Forest Stream)”...
Notable Sandwiches #23: Bun Kebab
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, nibble week by week through the bonkers...
My Week with the Witches
Author’s Note:I love writing this newsletter—or, well, I enjoy sending off the missives once I’m done agonizing over them, at any rate—and I love the...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XVI
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, and XV “Cheder” by Irving Amen, 1958 In the morning, the...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XV
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII and XIV “Village” by Marc Chagall, 1975 Chapter 7 The days grew...
Passover!
Spring blossoms Hey y’all, I’m taking off this next week to celebrate Passover. For one thing, writing about sandwiches during a period of leavenless...
Child Brides and the "Grooming" Lie
Edited by David Swanson Some months ago I wrote about the “Critical Race Theory” panic sweeping school boards and slate legislatures, a fact-free but...
Child Brides and the "Grooming" Lie
Edited by David Swanson Some months ago I wrote about the “Critical Race Theory” panic sweeping school boards and slate legislatures, a fact-free but...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIV
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII and XIII A man, in a muffler cap and sable hat, thrust his head in...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIV
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII and XIII A man, in a muffler cap and sable hat, thrust his head in...
Notable Sandwiches #22: Broodje Kroket
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Notable Sandwiches #22: Broodje Kroket
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
How to Deface a Swastika
Edited by David Swanson The final mast(r/place) on Reddit Over the weekend, I—along with a few million other people—became transfixed by an experiment on...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and XII When the congregation rose to engage in silent prayer, Yossel...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and XII When the congregation rose to engage in silent prayer, Yossel...
Morning and Evening: Editor's Note
If last week’s installment of Talia’s novella seemed somewhat disjointed, or even post-modern, this was an unintended consequence of an editorial snafu on my...
Morning and Evening: Editor's Note
If last week’s installment of Talia’s novella seemed somewhat disjointed, or even post-modern, this was an unintended consequence of an editorial snafu on my...
Notable Sandwiches #21: The Butifarra
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Six Months of Swords and Sandwiches
Edited by David Swanson Dear readers! (Swordsmen? Sand-Witchers?) Because this week marks half a year of this newsletter being in existence, I thought I’d...
Notable Sandwiches #20: The British Rail Sandwich
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, where I, in the company of my editor David Swanson, nibble through the baroque and demented document...
Notable Sandwiches #20: The British Rail Sandwich
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, where I, in the company of my editor David Swanson, nibble through the baroque and demented document...
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...