Stories by samclemens

A Chinese-American Novelist Wrote Herself into the Wild West

How Japanese Americans Built a ‘Useful American Life’ in 1940s Chicago

What Is There to Love About Longfellow?

The Mystery of Charles Dickens

How the ‘Sunset Route’ Railroad Helped Diversify California

Lionel Shriver Is Looking for Trouble

The Ghetto and the Mansion

Robert Stone’s Bad Trips

Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression

The Skeptical Pilgrim: Melville’s Clarel

The History of Nostalgia

Writing an Intellectual History of the President’s Cabinet

Anna Wintour Made Condé Nast the Embodiment of Boomer Excess. Can It Change?

Feynman: making the extraordinary look easy

Philip Roth’s Terrible Gift of Intimacy

Clare Boothe Luce, from Broadway to the Cold War

Contemporary Novels over 500 Pages

American Humbug

“Mamma Desta” and Ethiopian food in the U.S

How to Edit Your Own Writing

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