Stories by samclemens

Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinism and Religion in America

Fighting with Words: Richard Wright's Memoir, 'Black Boy (American Hunger)'

Can We Survive Technology? (1955) [pdf]

Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe's fraud of the century

The Affair That Split New York High Society

Overlooked No More: Cordell Jackson, Elder Stateswoman of Rock 'N' Roll

The Harvard Body-Snatching Case, and the Economy of Human Remains

Beware the Lides of March

Cormac McCarthy's Sideline: Freelance copy editor

Michiko Kakutani Was the Most Feared Woman in Publishing. What Happened?

A.J. Finn had a rise and fall. Now he has a new novel

The Morgan Motor Company designed a modern coupe, the Aeromax

The Eagle Never Sleeps: one Kentucky newspaper still screams for press freedom

Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896)

Jackie Coogan and the fall of Hollywood's child stars

How Thoreau challenged understandings of work, technology and the natural world

Does Literary Criticism Tell Truths About the World?

'American Journey' by Wes Davis Review

Lost Highway: The trials of trucking school

Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter

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