Stories by samclemens

The Books That Taught American Women to Camp in the Early 20th Century

A letter from Samuel Beckett to Cissie Sinclair, his aunt, dated August 14, 1937

Oliver Sacks: Sabbath

The Desk of Haruki Murakami

WB Yeats, the art teacher and a night at the sexologist’s

Ursula K. Le Guin: By the Book

Revising your writing again? Blame the Modernists (2013)

Strunk and White’s Macho Grammar Club

A Downpour of Fish: Murakami on Stage

Harper Lee and the Cold War Canon

Uncovering what Thoreau uncovered

What lies beneath

Basquiat and the Collecting of History

A Skeleton, a Catholic Relic, and a Mystery About American Origins

The Colonial Origins of the Greek Bailout

Industry, Ingenuity, and Fracture: On John McPhee

Let There Be Light Bulbs: How Incandescents Became the Icons of Innovation

What does being a New York Times Bestseller mean?

In a small town in Washington state, pride and shame over atomic legacy

The Feeling of Finishing

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