Stories by samclemens

Why Tocqueville Matters

How Allan Gurganus Became a Writer

The Origins of Creativity

Joel Warner’s “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade”

Searching for the Spirit of the Midwest

Manhattan’s Last Arcadia: Estate Plans from the Index of American Design (1936)

You and the Atomic Bomb (1945)

Rational Dress Society

Subterranean Treasures: Cormac McCarthy’s late style

A Master of a Curious Midcentury Art Form, the Industrial Musical

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act

Writer's Award Winner Philip Clark on the Sounds of New York City: Part II

Beware of Book Blurbs

The Earthshaking History of San Francisco’s Quake Shacks

Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and the Birth of Superman

‘A Mystery of Mysteries’ Review: Edgar Allan Poe, Through the Pale Door

The New York City kosher meat boycott of 1902

The Mistress of Slang

The Last Man (Mary Shelley novel)

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