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Tales of the Fantastic
$ · May 12, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwich Tribute to Steve Albini
May 10, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I stumble our way through the strange and mutable document that is...
The Tempest: Stormy Daniels Revisited
May 7, 2024
Inspired by the testimony of Stormy Daniels in court today, we’re re-publishing a pair of stories that Talia wrote for the Village Voice six years ago, when...
Culture Club: Grab Bag
$ · May 5, 2024
Welcome back my own most beautiful darlings! I want to thank you for being paid subscribers—you’re helping me keep the lights on and keep doing what I love...
Notable Sandwiches #95: Jesuita
May 3, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I and my longsuffering editor David Swanson stumble our way through the strange and mutable document...
History Repeats Itself at Columbia
April 30, 2024
By David Swanson Columbia’s Low Memorial Library in 1968, and in 2024 Last night, as a group of activists took over Hamilton Hall just hours after Columbia...
TLDS Culture Klatch
$ · April 28, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches Passover Edition: The Hillel
April 26, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Ten Poems for April
April 21, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #94: Jambon-Beurre
April 19, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of...
Announcing my new book, WILD FAITH!
April 16, 2024
Howdy y’all, I want to personally thank every subscriber to this newsletter (picture me giving you a very light kiss on the cheek in the European fashion)...
Time is a Flat Circle: True Detective, 10 Years Later
$ · April 14, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #93: Jam
April 12, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I stumble our way through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of...
Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles: A History of Hollywood in 30 Films
$ · April 7, 2024
BY DAVID SWANSON Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #92: Italian
April 5, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my long-suffering editor David Swanson, trek through the enormous and unwieldy document...
A Messiah Anointed with Snake Oil
April 2, 2024
It’s 2024, and we are all living in a world created by dead televangelists. Those big men with their waxen faces, made up for klieg lights—the Jerry...
100 Years in Babylon: An Archival History of Los Angeles
$ · March 31, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwich #91: Italian Beef
March 29, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my long-suffering editor David Swanson, trek through the enormous and unwieldy document...
Full Windsor
$ · March 24, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #90: Indian Taco
March 22, 2024
By Sara Calvosa Olson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my charming and long-suffering editor David Swanson, trip merrily...
The Return of Paul Manafort, Thug Whisperer
March 19, 2024
The return of Paul Manafort, as reported this week by the Washington Post, marks a stunning turnaround for one of the most shamelessly corrupt figures in...
The Soothing Hands of Craftsmen
$ · March 17, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or playing....
Notable Sandwiches #89: Hot Dog
March 15, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my charming and long-suffering editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the befuddling...
Robert Oppenheimer, Destroyer of Worlds
$ · March 10, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Voices at a Revolution
March 5, 2024
By David Swanson A Village Voice staff meeting in the late seventies "We didn't want to be seen as a left-wing newspaper particularly," said Village Voice...
The Village Voice's Freak Scene
March 3, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #88: Hot Brown
March 1, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my long-suffering editor David Swanson, wend my way through the ever-shifting document...
The Eternal Return of the Border Wars
February 27, 2024
“Lady Fortune and her Wheel” by Jean Pichore, c. 1510 Nietzsche had a theory of eternal return—drawn from Indian thought and his own fizzing and eloquent...
How to Live in a Female Body
$ · February 25, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #87: The Horseshoe
February 23, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my long-suffering editor David Swanson, wend my way through the ever-shifting document...
Magneto Was Right, Bub
February 18, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #86: Har Cheong Gai Burger
February 16, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I trip merrily through the baffling and mercurial document that is...
Turning Away from Disaster
February 13, 2024
An illustration from Ovid's Metamorphoses, by Virgil Solis, 1569 It started, as great art often does, with a metamorphosis. Or Metamorphoses—specifically,...
A Super Bowl Sunday Syllabus
February 11, 2024
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the recurring feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #85: The Handwich
February 9, 2024
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the baffling and mercurial document that is...
Writing Under Water
February 6, 2024
"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
February 4, 2024
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
February 2, 2024
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
January 28, 2024
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 #84: Hamdog
January 26, 2024
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
January 23, 2024
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
January 21, 2024
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
January 19, 2024
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
January 16, 2024
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
$ · January 14, 2024
Welcome back to Culture Club, the feature where David and I talk about what we've been reading, watching, playing or thinking about lately, for premium...
Notable Sandwiches #81: Ham Redux
January 12, 2024
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"
January 9, 2024
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
January 7, 2024
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
January 5, 2024
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
January 2, 2024
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...
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