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We Used to Read Things in This Country (thebaffler.com)

4 days ago | samclemens | thebaffler.com | newest

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Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road (theamericanscholar.org)

a week ago | samclemens | theamericanscholar.org | best

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Did Charles I Have to Die? (historytoday.com)

2 weeks ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | newest

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Ad-X2: When US Politicians Took on Science (historytoday.com)

3 weeks ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | newest

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How sober should a writer be? (yalereview.org)

4 weeks ago | samclemens | yalereview.org | frontpage

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Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library (smithsonianmag.com)

a month ago | samclemens | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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Slavery After Abolition: Revolt on the Amelia (historytoday.com)

a month ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | frontpage

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John Ashbery's Analyst (theparisreview.org)

a month ago | samclemens | theparisreview.org | newest

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Why did Joan Didion abandon her book about the Manson murders? (washingtonpost.com)

3 months ago | samclemens | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes–Please (theringer.com)

3 months ago | samclemens | theringer.com | newest

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"Mocha Dick," the White Whale of the Pacific (lithub.com)

3 months ago | samclemens | lithub.com | frontpage

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Fitzgerald's Follies (libertiesjournal.com)

3 months ago | samclemens | libertiesjournal.com | frontpage

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'The Devil Wears Rothko' Review: Victimhood and Vanity (wsj.com)

3 months ago | samclemens | wsj.com | newest

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When Coke and Pepsi Fought for Soft Drink in Outer Space (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | newest

3

A grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham (laphamsquarterly.org)

4 months ago | samclemens | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

2

The battle for Britain’s first book of the month club (historytoday.com)

4 months ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | frontpage

2

Shadow of a Doubt (harpers.org)

5 months ago | samclemens | harpers.org | frontpage

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Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a '70s artist who became a hero to 'garbage men' (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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The Epic of James Joyce (newstatesman.com)

5 months ago | samclemens | newstatesman.com | newest

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I am an audience, first and foremost (ratsfromrocks.substack.com)

5 months ago | samclemens | substack.com | frontpage

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Twain Dreams (harpers.org)

5 months ago | samclemens | harpers.org | frontpage

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The Maid Who Restored Charles II (historytoday.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | frontpage

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I Am an Audience, First and Foremost (ratsfromrocks.substack.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | substack.com | newest

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The Victorians, Creation, and the Dinosaur Problem (historytoday.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | frontpage

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All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the 19th Century US (oup.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | oup.com | frontpage

4

The Connoisseur of Desire (nybooks.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | nybooks.com | frontpage

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Gateway Books: The lessons of a defunct canon (thepointmag.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | thepointmag.com | frontpage

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The Connoisseur of Desire (nybooks.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | nybooks.com | newest

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Possibly a Serious Possibility (kucharski.substack.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | substack.com | best

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Mark Twain was the original American celebrity (wsj.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | wsj.com | newest

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The Centuries-Long Struggle to Make English Words Behave (nytimes.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | newest

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Chariot and Saucer (jewishreviewofbooks.com)

7 months ago | samclemens | jewishreviewofbooks.com | frontpage

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Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte (publicdomainreview.org)

7 months ago | samclemens | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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"Poetry City": Iowa City, Iowa (publicbooks.org)

7 months ago | samclemens | publicbooks.org | frontpage

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'Bright Circle' and 'Margaret Fuller': The Rise of the Transcendental Woman (wsj.com)

7 months ago | samclemens | wsj.com | frontpage

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What America Can Learn from the Americas (newrepublic.com)

7 months ago | samclemens | newrepublic.com | newest

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The Heir Conditioner (lareviewofbooks.org)

7 months ago | samclemens | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

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The Columbian Orator taught nineteenth-century Americans how to speak (neh.gov)

7 months ago | samclemens | neh.gov | frontpage

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Henry James's American Journey (chronicle.com)

7 months ago | samclemens | chronicle.com | frontpage

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Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century (publicdomainreview.org)

8 months ago | samclemens | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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Graydon Carter's Wild Ride Through the Golden Age of Magazines (newyorker.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | newyorker.com | frontpage

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Billy Possum Tried–and Failed–To Replace the Teddy Bear as America's Toy (smithsonianmag.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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Dante's Divine Autofiction (newstatesman.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | newstatesman.com | frontpage

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Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Baritsu (historytoday.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | frontpage

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When Corporate Branding Goes Wrong (nytimes.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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The QWERTY Keyboard Will Never Die. Where Did the 150-Year-Old Design Come From? (smithsonianmag.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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The Cocaine Files (cbc.ca)

8 months ago | samclemens | cbc.ca | frontpage

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The Gilded Age Never Ended (newyorker.com)

9 months ago | samclemens | newyorker.com | newest

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How Have Cults Shaped American History? (historytoday.com)

9 months ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | newest

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Stolen and Missing Moon Rocks (wikipedia.org)

9 months ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | newest

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The Prudence and Principles of Martin Van Buren (lawliberty.org)

9 months ago | samclemens | lawliberty.org | newest

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Nellie Bly (wikipedia.org)

9 months ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Losing It on Live TV (nytimes.com)

10 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | newest

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Forgeries, Fakes, and Phantom Time (historytoday.com)

10 months ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | frontpage

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Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became spies during World War II (newrepublic.com)

10 months ago | samclemens | newrepublic.com | frontpage

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Potoooooooo (wikipedia.org)

10 months ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | best

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Bunkers in Albania (wikipedia.org)

10 months ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | best

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1972 – 1982: The Decade That Changed Fitness Forever (nytimes.com)

10 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | newest

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Turkish chef recreates 8,600-year-old Neolithic bread (aa.com.tr)

10 months ago | samclemens | aa.com.tr | newest

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The Tedious Heroism of David Ruggles (commonplace.online)

10 months ago | samclemens | commonplace.online | best

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The Editor Who Drove Hemingway Away (jstor.org)

10 months ago | samclemens | jstor.org | newest

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Bad Moon Rising (archaeology.org)

10 months ago | samclemens | archaeology.org | frontpage

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Christmas Before Charles Dickens (historytoday.com)

11 months ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | newest

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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel (thebaffler.com)

11 months ago | samclemens | thebaffler.com | frontpage

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The One Hundred Pages Strategy (thelampmagazine.com)

11 months ago | samclemens | thelampmagazine.com | frontpage

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True Crime: Allan Pinkerton's Thirty Years a Detective (1884) (publicdomainreview.org)

11 months ago | samclemens | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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Why Are There So Many Mattress Firm Stores? (2018) (wbur.org)

11 months ago | samclemens | wbur.org | newest

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Slouch: Posture panic in modern America (thenation.com)

12 months ago | samclemens | thenation.com | frontpage

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A Diver Found a Ring Lost 50 Years Ago Near Barbados (nytimes.com)

12 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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A Woman Who Defined the Great Depression (newrepublic.com)

12 months ago | samclemens | newrepublic.com | frontpage

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The Allure of Medieval Churches (historytoday.com)

a year ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | newest

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Journalists and the "Origin Story" of Working from Home (saturdayeveningpost.com)

a year ago | samclemens | saturdayeveningpost.com | newest

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The heartbreak behind Dorothy Parker's wit (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | samclemens | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Age Before Duty: What role does age play in determining the status of equals? (historynewsnetwork.org)

a year ago | samclemens | historynewsnetwork.org | newest

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Scott Fitzgerald's Last Act (city-journal.org)

a year ago | samclemens | city-journal.org | best

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When the Nazis Seized Power, This Jewish Actor Took on the Role of His Life (smithsonianmag.com)

a year ago | samclemens | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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Her Majesty’s Rat-Catcher (2013) (laphamsquarterly.org)

a year ago | samclemens | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022) (thecraftsmanblog.com)

a year ago | samclemens | thecraftsmanblog.com | best

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The Larkin Soap Company (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Sears Homes 1915-1920 (searsarchives.com)

a year ago | samclemens | searsarchives.com | best

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Can the Nobel Prize Save Publishing from Itself? (newrepublic.com)

a year ago | samclemens | newrepublic.com | newest

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The many traditions of non-governmental money (2018) (unenumerated.blogspot.com)

a year ago | samclemens | blogspot.com | newest

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American Mythology (lareviewofbooks.org)

a year ago | samclemens | lareviewofbooks.org | newest

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Weird Nonfiction (lareviewofbooks.org)

a year ago | samclemens | lareviewofbooks.org | best

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Weird Nonfiction (lareviewofbooks.org)

a year ago | samclemens | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

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Foraging for America's Forgotten Fruit (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | samclemens | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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A Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (Ca. 1869) (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | samclemens | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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In the Shack with Robert Caro (curbed.com)

a year ago | samclemens | curbed.com | frontpage

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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs (historytoday.com)

a year ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | newest

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Death of the Department Store (lrb.co.uk)

a year ago | samclemens | lrb.co.uk | best

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In the Shack with Robert Caro (curbed.com)

a year ago | samclemens | curbed.com | frontpage

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A Little History of the Anchovy (engelsbergideas.com)

a year ago | samclemens | engelsbergideas.com | frontpage

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Adventures in Style (chronicle.com)

a year ago | samclemens | chronicle.com | frontpage

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Philosophy of the People (aeon.co)

a year ago | samclemens | aeon.co | newest

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Richard Powers on What We Do to the Earth and What It Does to Us (newyorker.com)

a year ago | samclemens | newyorker.com | newest

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The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading (literaryreview.co.uk)

a year ago | samclemens | literaryreview.co.uk | frontpage

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Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era (thewalrus.ca)

a year ago | samclemens | thewalrus.ca | best

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Moondance: Experience the marvel that is night-blooming tobacco (theamericanscholar.org)

a year ago | samclemens | theamericanscholar.org | frontpage

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What it's like to work on cold cases (nytimes.com)

a year ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins Changed the Face of Publishing (lithub.com)

a year ago | samclemens | lithub.com | newest