Stories by samclemens

An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

Title Fights: Who gets to name an author’s book?

Esperanto: the language that never was

When High Technology Meets Immortality: Don DeLillo's 'Zero K'

A Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch

The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia

Language Shrapnel

Letter from West Virginia

Charles Dickens and the Linguistic Art of the Minor Character

“Indiscretions” by Virginia Woolf (1924)

Railway Paradise: How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable

Roosevelt's Nature

My New York Misadventure (1932)

Why James Baldwin Still Matters

A Writer's Justification

Found: Walt Whitman’s Guide to ‘Manly Health’

The Battle Over U.S. Military History

Immortality Begins at Forty

How George Plimpton’s Sports Books Presaged the First-Person Media Age

Miss Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Glitz of 1950s Las Vegas

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