Stories by samclemens

The Political Consequences of Norman Mailer and Norman Podhoretz's Friendship

An American acquitted of spying for the Soviets after he confessed to it

Whatever became of the summer of love?

Salacious Convent Exposés Were the Most Popular Books in Antebellum America

Death of a Pig (1948)

What Time Is It When You Try to Pass Through “A Wrinkle in Time”?

17th Century Shopping List Discovered Under Floorboards of English Home

The Miseducation of Henry Adams

Search across every word from 25 years of the Simpsons

Field Notes from my Dementia

Politics and the English Editor

Philip Roth’s Newark

A Look Inside James Baldwin's 1,884 Page FBI File

The Cornell professor who invented the chicken nugget

How Hunter S. Thompson Became a Legend

Dark Futures: What happens when literary novelists experiment with Sci-Fi

W. G. Sebald, Humorist

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Shimmering Visions

What Gets Called ‘Civil War’?

Red Pens and Invisible Ink: Editors do their work behind the scenes

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