Writing Under Water
"Quatre Arbres" by Egon Schiele, 1917 Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my...
The Truman Show: A Capote Reader
Welcome back to Culture Club, the recurring feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #85: Hani
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the baffling and mercurial document that is...
In Soviet Times
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Notable Sandwiches #84: Hamdog
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the baffling and mercurial document that is...
The Decline and the Fall
Note to subscribers:Talia has another big book deadline and is also dealing with some creeping burnout, so for the next while the Tuesday columns will be...
A Burns Night Reader
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the feature where David and I talk about what we've been reading, watching, playing or thinking about lately....
Notable Sandwiches #83: The Hamburger
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the bizarre and ever-mutating document that...
Abortion, Underground
An abortion rights poster by Andréanne Quesnel Yesterday saw the shambolic and somewhat parodic Iowa caucuses; despite the lavish media attention devoted to...
On the Theory and Practice of Reading
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Notable Sandwiches #81: Ham Redux
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the bizarre and ever-mutating document that...
"What We Are Up Against"
Dear readers! I am a bit under the weather today with a virus, so we are re-publishingi an older column, from when this was a significantly smaller...
The Oral Histories of TV'S Greatest Shows
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 #80: Five Ways of Looking at a Ham Sandwich
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
New Year, new platform: Putting your money where our mouth is
setting sail into new waters Hello and happy new year to all our lovely sandwich-eaters & sword-wielders! You might notice that this email isn't coming from...
Shit Sandwich
Readers, sword-wielders, and sandwich-eaters, Today’s post is meant to be about a Dutch sandwich called the hagelslag, which is buttered bread with some...
How to Respond to Critics
“Art Critic” hy Norman Rockwell, 1955 Any writer faces critics, and any life led in public, even to a small public, faces the same. As much of my work has...
Me Me at the Moors
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Notable Sandwiches #78: Gyros
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Substackers Against Nazis
Hi readers—Below is a letter to the Substack founders that I helped draft as part of a group of publishers seeking answers to questions about the platforming...