Stories by samclemens

Who Speaks for Crazy Horse? (2019)

Underground Man: The Curious Case of Mark Zborowski (2010)

112 Gripes About the French

A New Planet in the System

Shadows Walking: With Wallace Stevens in New Haven

How Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defined American cultural beliefs

Humble Waiter or Son of a King? A Royal Mystery Piques Spain

Watermark: Along the California Aqueduct (2015)

We Don't Know, But Let's Try It

Janet Malcolm has died

It’s All in the Angles: Joan Didion’s Long View

Everyone and no one belongs to New York

A commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut (1994)

The Surveilled Student

Our Thing: An Interview with Paul Beatty (2015)

What Our Biggest Best-Sellers Tell Us About a Nation’s Soul

A Brief History of the Amphicar – President Lyndon Johnson’s Favorite Car (2020)

Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead?

Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921

On the Road: The Woman and the Car (1909)

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