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Amanda Kolson Hurley

Amanda Kolson Hurley is an editor at Bloomberg Green and the author of Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City.

Building Up and Breaking Down

Building Up and Breaking Down

What happens when the structures we erect plunge us into despair?

by Amanda Kolson Hurley | Thursday, September 01, 2022
Photo of Frank Lloyd Wright

He Contained Multitudes

Exploring the psychology of an iconoclastic architect

by Amanda Kolson Hurley | Tuesday, September 03, 2019
Reimagining Suburbia

Reimagining Suburbia

What if the world’s greatest architects began looking beyond the city limits?

by Amanda Kolson Hurley | Monday, September 07, 2015

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2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

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