Stories by samclemens

How the New England town became the mythical landscape of American democracy

The Handwriting of Famous People

The Future of Biography

Wilde about Paris: the sex, drink and liberation of Oscar Wilde’s “lost” years

Going to Graceland

Atomic Anxiety and the Tooth Fairy: Citizen Science in the Midwest (2014)

Romain Gary: The Greatest Literary Conman?

A New Massive Helen Keller Archive Gets Launched

The Pain Refugees: The forgotten victims of America’s opioid crisis

How Ceiling Fans Allowed Slaves to Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners

What the Viral Media of the Civil War Era Can Teach Us About Prejudice

Barbearians at the Gate

A Translator Grasps for the Words to Convey a Brazilian Icon

When an extraordinary collection of talent gathered at the Kennedy White House

An Illustrated History of the Picnic Table

Philip Roth, the Seminal American Novelist, Has Died at Eighty-Five

The ‘Pedestrian’ Who Became One of America’s First Black Sports Stars

Tonedeaf in our nose: a double James Joyce centenary

Study: Two Spaces After a Period May Be Better Than One

The Silent Type: On Ulysses S. Grant

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