Stories by samclemens

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

The Legend of A-N-N-A

Abe Lincoln Looks West: How the Civil War Changed the Frontier

Lydia Davis Loved Learning the Word ‘Look.’ These Essays Show Why

Mulholland Gave LA Water and a Motto to Live By (2013)

An Uncommon Correspondent

The Vexed Meaning of Equality in Gilded Age America

The Center Does Not Hold: Jill Lepore’s Awkward Embrace of the Nation

Here at the End of All Things (2017)

Oxford Professor Is Accused of Selling Ancient Texts

L.A. is the perpetual dark heart of crime writing

The Triumphs and Tribulations of Towboats on the Mississippi River

The Dream of New York's Forgotten Elevated Subway

George Washington, Other Slave Owners Used Newspapers to Hunt Escaped Slaves

‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Almost Ruined Me as a Writer

It’s time to ban cars from Manhattan

Scavenger of Eternal Truths: Thomas Meaney on Norman Mailer in the 1960s

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