| 1. | | Why Doesn't Anyone Trust the Media? (harpers.org) |
| 4 points by samclemens 9 hours ago | past | 13 comments |
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| 2. | | We Used to Read Things in This Country (thebaffler.com) |
| 5 points by samclemens 6 days ago | past | discuss |
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| 3. | | Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road (theamericanscholar.org) |
| 80 points by samclemens 12 days ago | past | 59 comments |
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| 4. | | Did Charles I Have to Die? (historytoday.com) |
| 1 point by samclemens 19 days ago | past |
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| 5. | | Ad-X2: When US Politicians Took on Science (historytoday.com) |
| 2 points by samclemens 25 days ago | past |
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| 6. | | How sober should a writer be? (yalereview.org) |
| 43 points by samclemens 30 days ago | past | 59 comments |
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| 7. | | Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 3 points by samclemens 40 days ago | past |
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| 8. | | [flagged] Slavery After Abolition: Revolt on the Amelia (historytoday.com) |
| 46 points by samclemens 53 days ago | past | 13 comments |
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| 9. | | John Ashbery's Analyst (theparisreview.org) |
| 2 points by samclemens 61 days ago | past |
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| 10. | | Why did Joan Didion abandon her book about the Manson murders? (washingtonpost.com) |
| 6 points by samclemens 78 days ago | past |
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| 11. | | Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes–Please (theringer.com) |
| 5 points by samclemens 81 days ago | past | 3 comments |
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| 12. | | "Mocha Dick," the White Whale of the Pacific (lithub.com) |
| 10 points by samclemens 88 days ago | past |
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| 13. | | Fitzgerald's Follies (libertiesjournal.com) |
| 9 points by samclemens 3 months ago | past |
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| 14. | | 'The Devil Wears Rothko' Review: Victimhood and Vanity (wsj.com) |
| 2 points by samclemens 3 months ago | past |
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| 15. | | When Coke and Pepsi Fought for Soft Drink in Outer Space (nytimes.com) |
| 2 points by samclemens 3 months ago | past |
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| 16. | | A grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham (laphamsquarterly.org) |
| 38 points by samclemens 3 months ago | past | 3 comments |
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| 17. | | The battle for Britain’s first book of the month club (historytoday.com) |
| 9 points by samclemens 3 months ago | past | 2 comments |
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| 18. | | Shadow of a Doubt (harpers.org) |
| 18 points by samclemens 4 months ago | past | 8 comments |
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| 19. | | Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a '70s artist who became a hero to 'garbage men' (nytimes.com) |
| 46 points by samclemens 4 months ago | past | 15 comments |
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| 20. | | The Epic of James Joyce (newstatesman.com) |
| 2 points by samclemens 5 months ago | past |
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| 21. | | I am an audience, first and foremost (ratsfromrocks.substack.com) |
| 8 points by samclemens 5 months ago | past | 1 comment |
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| 22. | | Twain Dreams (harpers.org) |
| 30 points by samclemens 5 months ago | past | 18 comments |
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| 23. | | The Maid Who Restored Charles II (historytoday.com) |
| 83 points by samclemens 5 months ago | past | 32 comments |
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| 24. | | The Victorians, Creation, and the Dinosaur Problem (historytoday.com) |
| 5 points by samclemens 5 months ago | past | 2 comments |
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| 25. | | All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the 19th Century US (oup.com) |
| 8 points by samclemens 5 months ago | past | 1 comment |
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| 26. | | The Connoisseur of Desire (nybooks.com) |
| 34 points by samclemens 5 months ago | past | 1 comment |
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| 27. | | Gateway Books: The lessons of a defunct canon (thepointmag.com) |
| 26 points by samclemens 5 months ago | past | 20 comments |
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| 28. | | Possibly a Serious Possibility (kucharski.substack.com) |
| 255 points by samclemens 6 months ago | past | 122 comments |
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| 29. | | Mark Twain was the original American celebrity (wsj.com) |
| 3 points by samclemens 6 months ago | past | 1 comment |
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| 30. | | The Centuries-Long Struggle to Make English Words Behave (nytimes.com) |
| 2 points by samclemens 6 months ago | past |
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