Stories by samclemens

A new history of the essay gets the genre all wrong

PG Wodehouse secures redemption as British Library acquires priceless archive

The 50th Anniversary of ATS-1

Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson’s Epic Literary Feud

Power Poser: When big ideas go bad

“One Hundred Years Hence”: Victorians predicting future technological wonders

The Dividend Disconnect [pdf]

Thoreau Was Actually Funny

Let Down by the Lists

Going Diamond: on Amway

Understanding the Russian Revolution

Creepy Futures: Nicholas Carr’s History of the Future

The Big Little Man from Brooklyn (1968)

The Film J.D. Salinger Nearly Made

Meeting One's Madness: Alan Watts and the “age of Environmental Anxiety"

A Black History Museum

Death of the hatchet job

New York City's Graveyard Shift

Stranger Things: The Rise and Fall of UFOs and Life on the Moon

Forever Words: A new book collects the unpublished poems of Johnny Cash

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