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Caitriona Lally

Caitriona Lally is the author of the novels Eggshells and Wunderland. She won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2018 and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction in 2019. She is employed as a cleaner at Trinity College Dublin and is working on her third book.

Phantoms

Phantoms

What it’s like to navigate the world when your senses conjure up phenomena that others can’t perceive

by Caitriona Lally | Thursday, March 16, 2023

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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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