Stories by samclemens

In Parenthesis: in praise of the Somme's forgotten poet

The Mysterious Origins of the Sausage

J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the “Sex Deviates” Program

Fifty Shades of Moby-Dick

The Ghost (Writer) in the Machine

(W)here Lies Constance Wilde?

“Hamilton” and the Books That Hamilton Held

Who Owns Star Trek?

Ulysses: It's Still a Scandal

Roald Dahl – the storyteller as benevolent sadist (2010)

On Max Perkins, One of America's Greatest Editors

The parlance of pilots

“The American Woods”: The 19th Century and Beyond

What Happened to 'The Most Liberated Woman in America'?

Map of Slavery in the North

In the Depths of the Digital Age

Letter-Writing Manuals Were the Self-Help Books of the 18th Century

Some Lost Superstitions of the Early-20th-Century United States

It needs more public-spirited pigs: TS Eliot's rejection of Orwell's Animal Farm

The Mall Lives

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