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Adam Begley

Adam Begley is the author of Updike. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement. This essay is adapted from his forthcoming book, The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera.

A Wink and a Nod

A Wink and a Nod

The French artist Nadar at his most subversive and sly

by Adam Begley | Monday, June 05, 2017

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Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last 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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