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Morning and Evening: Editor's Note
$ · April 2, 2022
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
April 1, 2022
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
March 29, 2022
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
March 25, 2022
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
March 25, 2022
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
March 22, 2022
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
March 22, 2022
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
$ · March 20, 2022
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
March 18, 2022
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
March 15, 2022
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
$ · March 13, 2022
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
March 11, 2022
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
March 8, 2022
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
$ · March 6, 2022
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
March 4, 2022
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
March 1, 2022
Edited by David Swanson The Hall of Remembrance at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War (Source: Музей історії України у...
Morning and Evening, Pt. IX
$ · February 27, 2022
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
February 25, 2022
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
February 22, 2022
Edited by David Swanson As Russian troops embark upon what may be anything from an extension of the long and grinding war in Ukraine’s far East to a full-...
Morning and Evening, Pt. VIII
$ · February 20, 2022
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?
February 18, 2022
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
February 15, 2022
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
$ · February 13, 2022
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
February 11, 2022
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
February 8, 2022
What is antifascism? The simplest explanation is also the truest: antifascism exists in relation to fascism as antimatter does to matter—its opposite, and,...
Morning and Evening, Pt. VI
$ · February 6, 2022
Previously published: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV and V Content note: this chapter contains a scene depicting sexual violence. Chapter 3 Yossel...
Notable Sandwiches #14: Bocadillo, A Little Mouthful
February 4, 2022
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I nibble my way through the baffling and extraordinary document that is...
How To Report Subversive Books And Teachers in YOUR School
February 1, 2022
Last week, Virginia’s newly-elected Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin told a local conservative radio station that he had set up a tip line where concerned...
Morning and Evening, Pt. V
$ · January 30, 2022
Previously published: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III and IV Yossel feared both his mother’s rage and her sorrows, which came on without warning. In...
Notable Sandwiches #13: The BLT
January 28, 2022
Welcome to the weekly feature where, every Friday, I take another bite from the nigh-inexhaustible and deeply weird resource that is Wikipedia’s List of...
The Devil in D.C.
January 25, 2022
When you close your eyes, what do you imagine lives in the darkness beside you? There are so many things too small to see—microbes and molecules, protons and...
Morning and Evening, Pt. IV
$ · January 23, 2022
Previously published: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, and III Chapter 2 Yossel and Pawel parted at the church steps in the village square. It was later...
Morning and Evening, Pt. IV
$ · January 23, 2022
Previously published: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, and III Chapter 2 Yossel and Pawel parted at the church steps in the village square. It was later...
Notable Sandwiches #12: Beirute
January 21, 2022
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I faithfully chronicle the bizarre and twisted document that is Wikipedia’s List...
Morning and Evening, Pt. III
$ · January 19, 2022
Previously published: Morning and Evening, Part I and Part II “Good morning, Yossel,” Pawel called out. “Good morning, Pawel Janowic,” Yossel replied. When...
A Covid Diary
January 17, 2022
I tested positive for covid on my mother's birthday, and that night I couldn't sleep at all. I could see the faint blue line of the positive result glowing...
Notable Sandwiches #11: Beef on Weck
January 14, 2022
Last fall, when I first told my mother about this newsletter and the Notable Sandwiches project, the entry she was most looking forward to was the “Beef on...
Eugenics with a Smile
January 11, 2022
For some months now, I’ve lurked, somewhat shamefacedly, in a controversial Reddit community called r/HermanCainAward. It’s got just shy of a half-million...
Publishing Schedule Update
January 10, 2022
As the Sword and the Sandwich moves into 2022, we’re going to be changing things up a bit, moving to a Sunday-Tuesday-Friday publishing schedule. You’ll...
Notable Sandwiches #10: Bauro'd Time
January 7, 2022
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I faithfully chronicle the bizarre and twisted document that is Wikipedia’s List...
Notable Sandwiches #10: Bauro'd Time
January 7, 2022
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I faithfully chronicle the bizarre and twisted document that is Wikipedia’s List...
The Lost Supper
December 20, 2021
For two years running, now, I’ve wanted to throw a big dinner party. I’ve hosted a few in my time, and while they are often chaotic, as is my nature—the last...
The Lost Supper
December 20, 2021
For two years running, now, I’ve wanted to throw a big dinner party. I’ve hosted a few in my time, and while they are often chaotic, as is my nature—the last...
A Foul and Pestilent Congregation of Vapors
December 13, 2021
I have of late, wherefore I know precisely, lost all my mirth. I mean, that’s not what Hamlet says. He claims not to know why he’s lost his mirth, although...
A Foul and Pestilent Congregation of Vapors
December 13, 2021
I have of late, wherefore I know precisely, lost all my mirth. I mean, that’s not what Hamlet says. He claims not to know why he’s lost his mirth, although...
Notable Sandwiches #9: A Tale of Two Sandwiches
December 10, 2021
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I faithfully chronicle the bizarre and twisted document that is Wikipedia’s List...
Notable Sandwiches #9: A Tale of Two Sandwiches
December 10, 2021
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I faithfully chronicle the bizarre and twisted document that is Wikipedia’s List...
Morning and Evening, Part II
$ · December 8, 2021
Subscribe now Continued from Part I “Hey Jew-boy!” A thin figure began to descend the steps. As he reached the bottom Yossel saw it was the one-eyed Pawel,...
Morning and Evening, Part II
$ · December 8, 2021
Subscribe now Continued from Part I “Hey Jew-boy!” A thin figure began to descend the steps. As he reached the bottom Yossel saw it was the one-eyed Pawel,...
Abortion, Hypocrisy and the Will to Power
December 6, 2021
The principal lens through which I observe the American right is this: what looks like hypocrisy from the outside can be explained by the pure will to power....
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