Stories by samclemens

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

The Story of How McDonald’s First Got Its Start

The Lost Virtue of Cursive

Philosophy Beyond the Academy

Diary of a German Soldier (1942) [pdf]

Booked: When Slaveholders Controlled the Government

The greatest role of Bill Murray’s life has been playing Bill Murray

The Great Trap for All Americans

Justine Kurland’s Great American Road Trip

Anthropocene and Empire

Twain and Stowe Homes Being Renovated for Historical Accuracy

Houdini Spent 4 Days Shaming Congress for Being in Thrall to Fortune-Tellers

The Dramatic Life and Mysterious Death of Theodosia Burr

Being a Bumpkin: untangling the Gordian knot of white-trash identity

Why Women Pretended to Be Rocks and Trees in NYC Parks During WWI

The Belle and the Bard

Sodom, LLC: The Marquis de Sade and the office novel

Texts in Sebald’s the Rings of Saturn (2013)

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