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Charlie Lee

Charlie Lee is an assistant editor of Harper’s Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

The Reading Hordes

The Reading Hordes

An excerpt from The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

by Charlie Lee | Tuesday, November 09, 2021
Master of the Esoteric

Master of the Esoteric

A new biography of one of the past century’s most eclectic writers

by Charlie Lee | Monday, December 20, 2021
London Without its Landmarks

London Without its Landmarks

A mournful silence in the Stage City

by Charlie Lee | Monday, December 14, 2020
New Orleans: Vanishing Graves

New Orleans: Vanishing Graves

Holt Cemetery has been filled to capacity many times over; each gravesite has been used for dozens of burials

by Charlie Lee | Monday, December 07, 2020

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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