Stories by samclemens

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

Last survivor of transatlantic slave trade discovered

Zerah Colburn (mental calculator)

Don DeLillo deserves the Nobel

Scientists Pit Sourdough Against White Bread–With Surprising Results (2017)

Joseph Smith and the Early Mormons Challenged American Democracy

Surrender in the American Civil War (2019)

Orwell's List

This story just won’t write (2013)

What our contagion fables are really about

Literature for a Lockdown

Tracing the American cemetery from the colonial age to the Gilded Age

The Logic of the Rebel: On Simone Weil and Albert Camus

“First Cow,” Reviewed: Fatalistic Portrait of Early American Entrepreneurs

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