i didn't do a proper new year roundup, but so far here are my favorite posts from theswordandthesandwich.substack.com where i now write thrice weekly (subscribe below!!) 1/
this post, on the history of apocalypse predictions and the way the mark of the beast plays into antivaxx ideology: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/apocalypse-n…
this post, which offers an elaborate and dare i say eloquent history of the baked bean and the choking of culture in new england: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/notable-sand…
this heavily researched, painful and i hope important 3 parter on child abuse in evangelical christian households, and its longterm and intergenerational effects: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/ministry-of-…
this slightly unhinged ode to bagels, with excessive quotations of poetry: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/notable-sand…
this rant on the obsessive and ravenous appropriation of holocaust imagery by antivaxxers, in stark contrast to the little known story of the heroes who inoculated jews against typhus amid the slaughter of the camps: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/antivaxx-hol…
and finally this elaborate imaginary menu, a paean to the collective celebrations lost to the pandemic: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/the-lost-sup…
you may find more topic-heavy substacks, ones that confirm your priors more satisfyingly, ones that stick to a theme more rigorously, but i aim to deliver a wild riot of words on food and pain and love and longing and joy. please subscribe! theswordandthesandwich.substack.com
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