Stories by samclemens

Sibell, an enslaved African in Barbados relates her life story

On Not Reading

Divine Indigestion: The endlessly fabulized American self

Considering the correspondence between CEOs and shareholders as a literary genre

Paranoid Android: The Divine Madness of Philip K Dick

A new biography of Jacob Neusner, one of the most-published authors in history

The Death of Flair

The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’ Is Not What You Think

Nabokov’s ‘great gay comic novel’

Fear of Rattlesnake Island

When Refrigeration Was Controversial

Wishing and Hoping: Card Tricks, Love Spells, and Methods of Escape

The origins of children’s literature

During the Nazi Occupation of Norway, Humor Was the Secret Weapon

America's First Medal at the Nazi Olympics Was for Town Planning

Left-Handed Penmanship Contests for Civil War Vets After Amputation

Selected Translations from “Factory Stories”

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s

Social Circles Collide on a Dance Floor. Then a Brawl Ends in Death

How to Write a Novel

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