Stories by samclemens

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

Fast Asleep and Wide Awake

'We Were Arrogant': Interview with New York Times Editor Dean Baquet

Classic books that got horrible reviews when they first came out

Letter from New York, 2005: Adventures in Tastelessness at the Onion

Speed Kills: Digital technology and leisure

Can art still shock?

How 1980s childhoods changed the way America thought about the Bomb (2014)

Hoefnagel’s Guide to Constructing the Letters (ca. 1595)

Lies We Tell About Lenin

Wolflandia: The Fight Over the Most Polarizing Animal in the West

Through Art and Forensics, Faces of Unidentified Victims Emerge

The Oddly Reassuring Quality of Surrealist Art

When Lincoln's State of the Union Leaked

A Hong Kong cruise into 'international waters' can be a lonesome affair

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