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Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven novels, most recently Friend of My Youth. His sixth novel, Odysseus Abroad, is based on the Odyssey and on Ulysses. He is a professor of creative writing and the director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical at Ashoka University. His eighth novel, Sojourn, will be published in the United States in September.

For the Joy of Joyce

For the Joy of Joyce

Abandon the notion of high-minded seriousness and simply enter into the novel’s flow

by Amit Chaudhuri | Wednesday, June 01, 2022

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

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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