Stories by samclemens

James Watt: A Twelve-Year Flash of Genius

We've Adapted Our Reading Habits to Fit Our Screens, but at a Cost

On Self-Respect by Joan Didion (1961)

Nancy Drew: The Most Iconic Woman in Gaming

The Cult of Vice

Archivists are racing to digitise 300 years of newspapers before they crumble

The Rewriting of David Foster Wallace

Quote Unquote: A sentence goes viral–why?

Eric Foner on the past and present of white supremacy

The Crisis in Non-Fiction Publishing

The Curse of the Pixar Universe

The Young T.S. Eliot: A rediscovery of an emerging poet

Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data

The free-love couple who pissed off nineteenth-century America

The Great Mimeograph Revolution (2011)

Johann Hari on the War on Drugs

Conflict Over Sociologist's Narrative Puts Spotlight on Ethnography

Ways of Seeing (1971) [video]

The Greatest Bullfight Ever (1948)

Falsely Attributed: Famous quotes and the people who didn’t say them

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