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Cathy Otten

Cathy Otten is a journalist based in Iraqi Kurdistan. She reports on the war with ISIS and is the author of a forthcoming book, With Ash on Their Faces: Yazidi Women and the Islamic State.

A Legacy in Ruins

A Legacy in Ruins

What now for Iraq’s Mosul Museum, recently liberated from ISIS?

by Cathy Otten | Monday, June 05, 2017
Letter from Sinjar: Convert or Die

Letter from Sinjar: Convert or Die

A city ravaged by ISIS is littered with explosives and mass graves

by Cathy Otten | Monday, February 29, 2016

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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