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Amanda Parrish Morgan

Amanda Parrish Morgan is the author of the nonfiction work Stroller. Her articles and essays have appeared in such places as The Washington Post, Real Simple, and ESPNW. She teaches a course in rhetoric and composition at Fairfield University.

Why We Are Failing to Make the Grade

Why We Are Failing to Make the Grade

Covid-19 has contributed to a crisis in America’s classrooms, but the problems predate the pandemic and are likely to outlast it

by Amanda Parrish Morgan | Thursday, September 08, 2022
Skeletons in the Closet

Skeletons in the Closet

Six literary haunted houses to visit this October

by Amanda Parrish Morgan | Tuesday, October 20, 2020
The Givers

The Givers

On this Mother’s Day, let’s acknowledge the power of those who offer both professional and domestic care

by Amanda Parrish Morgan | Friday, May 08, 2020
That Common Heart

That Common Heart

Finding unity and faith in the fiction of Marilynne Robinson

by Amanda Parrish Morgan | Wednesday, March 14, 2018

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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