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Andrew Levy

Andrew Levy is a professor of English at Butler University. He is the author of four books, including Huck Finn’s America and A Brain Wider Than the Sky. His essays and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, The Best American Essays, The Missouri Review, and the Scholar.

The Power of Restraint

The Power of Restraint

We must find a better way to commemorate 9/11

by Andrew Levy | Monday, May 31, 2021

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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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