Stories by samclemens

Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity into His Books, Has Died

John Clare's Heirs: The Enduring Reach of a Rural Poet

In Defense of Thoreau

John Clare's Heirs: The Enduring Reach of a Rural Poet

Earliest Known Draft of King James Bible Is Found, Scholar Says

Truman Capote's Early Stories

Crushing up pain pills and spitting out lives in West Virginia coal country

Shrimp Boy's Day in Court

Pond Scum: Henry David Thoreau’s Moral Myopia

Obama and Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa

The Chicago End-Times: The slow humiliation of Chicago’s most vital newspaper

Forecast (1865)

Why We Mostly Stopped Messing with Shakespeare's Language

The Rise, Fall, and Revival of American Whiskey

The Price Is Right: What Advertising Does to TV

George RR Martin: our long obsession with Mars

New edition of TS Eliot poetry challenges perceptions of his sexuality

Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Sci-Fi in “The Doom of the Great City” (1880)

The new world order of Césaire and Senghor

Walter Benjamin’s legacy, 75 years on

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