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Aaron Sachs

Aaron Sachs teaches at Cornell University. He is the author, most recently, of Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition, which combines historical scholarship with memoir.

The Hidden Music of Words

The Hidden Music of Words

Academics shouldn’t scoff at literary prose—they have much to learn from it

by Aaron Sachs | Tuesday, October 11, 2016
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Wallace Stegner’s Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs

A calming influence

by Aaron Sachs | Monday, July 20, 2015
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The Bookroom

by Aaron Sachs | Monday, February 23, 2015

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died this year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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