Stories by samclemens

W.G. Sebald and the Malthusian Tragic

Technological Change and Obsolete Skills: Evidence from Men’s Pro Tennis (2017) [pdf]

Sorry No Gas: Photos from Documerica, 1972 – 1975

The Myth of Authenticity Is Killing Tex-Mex

Getting a fair price: a handy pocket-book for merchants (and smugglers?)

Kansas locked up more than 5,000 women and girls for having STDs

Jimmy Is Everywhere: On James Baldwin's FBI File

The naked and the read

What makes Jewish comedy Jewish?

Willa Cather, Pioneer

Wil Self: In Praise of Difficult Novels

Zadie Smith’s Varieties of Individuality

Poetry of Puritanism

Roth Agonistes

What to Make of Finnegans Wake? (2012)

Mark Twain’s adventures in love

The Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Gellhorn

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable to Outsiders (2016)

A Mystery Manuscript Found in a Used Copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland’

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