Talia Lavin, “I was forced to hide my identity in order to tap into the white nationalist milieu as much as possible. In real life, I am a gawky, bisexual Jew living in Brooklyn, […] the very embodiment of the mothers in Philip Roth’s novels. I am also someone with a definite political stance: I am outspoken and, without being particularly sectarian, would place myself considerably to the left of Medicare for All.” Lavin is an American author and journalist who has written for The New Republic, The New Yorker, and the Washington Post, among others, focusing primarily on the far right. She has also been a columnist for MSNBC Daily and a contributor for GQ, and is the author of The Culture of Hate, which the New York Times called “angry, insolent, and funny” at the same time. Lavin defines herself as an outsider who, by dint of living in the public eye, has come to wear her own outsiderness with pride. On her blog, The Sword and the Sandwich, she wrote: “I’m so excited to be able to celebrate, under the auspices of my own publication, that strangeness, that endless curiosity, and that raging hunger for justice, all in one place, for a long time and over time. I’ll be able to obsess over Nazis and write about the most interesting people on the front lines of the fight against the far right; write about bread and everything in it; and expound on everything in between.”