Stories by samclemens

All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art

The Double Battle: Frederick Douglass’s Moral Crusade

What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?

Telegraph operators were first to know news of the Civil War

Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking

The Greatest Use of Life: On William James

The Screenwriting Mystic Who Wanted to Be the American Führer

Why the novel matters in the age of anger

What we can learn about trade policy from a misbegotten 19th century effort

How San Francisco Planned Its Own Housing Crisis

The Village Voice (1955-2018)

A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon

Alex Garland’s cult novel The Beach, 20 years on

A History of the Jerks: Bodily Exercises and the Great Revival (1803–1967)

Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic History of Soda Pop (2014)

Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state

Aquarius Rising

An anthropological dispatch from the landfill dig to unearth Atari’s E.T. (2014)

The Making of Future Man: On Hugo Gernsback (2017)

When Archaeologists Talk Trash (2014)

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