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Near-Death Experiences
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On Saturday, December 10, 1853, as the January issue of Harper’s Magazine was being printed, a plumber repairing some water pipes in the pressroom lit his lamp and tossed the…

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Distant Mirrors
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One hundred seventy-five years of rupture and revolution

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Twain Dreams
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The enigma of Samuel Clemens

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An Ornament of Our Dingy Office
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William Dean Howells called it his “Uneasy Chair.” Lewis H. Lapham thought it “a column always grotesquely misnamed.” Bernard DeVoto simply wanted to do something else—a books section—and tried to fob…

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