Stories by samclemens

The Radicalism of Randolph Bourne

Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel, a Proudly Difficult Person

History of Mel Brooks: Both Parts

The Eccentric Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (2019)

Born in the USA

Finding the Other: The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison

Thomas Mann in America

The Curse of Milk Sickness

List of Books Considered the Worst

I just let him have his beer

Ralph Ellison’s Slow-Burning Art

Why do publishers still issue hardbacks? (2018)

Cigarette Stories

The Unfinished Revolution: Eric Foner’s Story of American Freedom

Joan Didion’s Early Novels of American Womanhood

Jefferson's Doomed Educational Experiment

Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention

American Slavery and ‘The Relentless Unforeseen’

When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr

American Gothic: On America’s unease with the darkness in its past

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