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Becca Cudmore

Becca Cudmore is a science writer from the Willamette Valley in Oregon. She has written for Audubon, Nautilus, and Slate, and her writing has been selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017.

Six Books for Earth Day

Six Books for Earth Day

These underrated nature writers bring the great outdoors to your living room

by Becca Cudmore | Friday, April 26, 2019

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 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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