Stories by samclemens

The Vale of Soul-Making: How Keats Coped with Fever (2014)

A newly rediscovered stash of darker-than-Grimm fairy tales

How Writing Fiction Masters Fear

How a Look Inside a Slave Ship Turned the Tide Toward Abolition

Snowfall Blues: The Hard Life and Clear Sound of Jackson C. Frank

Why the British Are Better at Satire

History, Sugar and Sex: Why Mixed Drinks Were Terrible for 30 Years

David Carr: Journalism Is Still Serious, Just Different

How the Military Waged a Graphic-Design War on Venereal Disease

The Phantom Punch

How Learning Artistic Skills Alters the Brain

The Muslims of Early America

The Invention of the Cardboard Box

The impossibility of perfect forgeries?

The History of “Loving” to Read

Daniel L. Everett on Language and Thought

Was Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' Inspired by a Scientific Drawing?

Under the Moonlight (On Austin's Moon Towers)

American Cassandra: On Francis Fukuyama

Jefferson's Outline of the Differences Between Northerners and Southerners

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