Stories by samclemens

Man’s Best Friend Once Made Nice Wool Blankets, Too (2019)

Why Do We Keep Reading the Great Gatsby?

Republic of Indian Stream

The Missing Malcolm X (2018)

Why 1920s L.A. Went Wild for an 18th-Century Scottish Novelist

The lesser-known Orwell: are his novels deserving of reappraisal?

What Writers and Editors Do

Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction into High Art (2019)

Unchained Melody: The dark side of Harry Houdini

The 1950s plan for a Washington Square Highway (2014)

What Thomas Jefferson Could Never Understand About Jesus

As a Teenager, I Hated Johnny Carson. Then Came the Pandemic

Broomstick Weddings

Charles Dickens, the Writer Who Saw Lockdown Everywhere

How New York became a metropolis of stoops

Their Publishing Imprint Closed. Now They’re Bringing It Back

Kurt Vonnegut on 8 ‘shapes’ of stories

Degeneration Nation: How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse

Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers

What the Church Meant for James Baldwin

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