Stories by samclemens

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Forever Words: A new book collects the unpublished poems of Johnny Cash

Teju Cole Reminds Us of Life Beyond Politics, and the Beauty of Art

The Chopped Cheese’s Sharp Rise to Fame

Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human drivers were the fear

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