Stories by samclemens

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

What makes a great magazine editor?

The treadmill was invented as a prison rehabilitation device

Don the Talking Dog

What’s in an Author Name?

A new standard of beauty led to today’s weight-loss regimens

The Meanest Things Vladimir Nabokov Said About Other Writers

Cripes, a bumbershoot

God Save Austin

The Man Who Wanted Everything

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