Ring Lardner, “Simple Simon”
Science fiction authority presents a Universe-expanding exhibition in New York City
Edith Maude Eaton, “Mrs. Spring Fragrance”
Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants”
Cultural panic and overwhelming change: Richard White looks back on America’s first Gilded Age
The Battle of Huế, fifty years later: the first draft of history as “a vital public service”
George Ade, “Mark Twain as Our Emissary”
Richard White on Frank Norris, The Octopus, and the Southern Pacific Railroad
Morgan Jerkins: Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist made me believe that I could be honest
Cheston Knapp: Weird, feral Ralph Waldo Emerson, wily William Gass, and other influences on Up Up, Down Down