Stories by samclemens

Women in the California Gold Rush

Fact-Check Yourself Before You Fact-Wreck Yourself

On the Road with Aristotle: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)

Yad Vashem's database of Holocaust victims' names

Fear of a White Lighter

What Price Zelda?: The extraordinary afterlife of an ordinary writer

Drinking While Jurying

Salinger's Nightmare: An unemployed actor tracked down Salinger

James Baldwin’s Archive, Long Hidden, Comes Mostly into View

The Elements of Bureaucratic Style

The Reconstruction of Ulysses S. Grant

An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions (2016)

How Cars Get Named

Kay Redfield Jamison on Robert Lowell's Poetry, Privacy, and Psychotherapy

The Enduring Legacy of the Pocahontas Myth

Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction

A Not So Distant Mirror: Jack London's Political Writings

A Sloppy Land Surveyor Almost Caused a War Between Missouri and Iowa

Papa the Investor

Under the Spell of James Baldwin

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