Stories by samclemens

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)

Why 'Little Women' Endures

No, but I Saw the Game (1989)

A Botulism Outbreak Gave Rise to America’s Food Safety System

On Boredom (1975)

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

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