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Diane Cole

Diane Cole is the author of a memoir, After Great Pain: A New Life Emerges, and is the book columnist for The Psychotherapy Networker. She also writes for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other publications.

Bliss and Melancholy

Bliss and Melancholy

Playing music can pull you through the tough times

by Diane Cole | Saturday, May 29, 2021
Twenty-seven Boxes

Twenty-seven Boxes

When a lifetime’s worth of artifacts and memories arrived at my door

by Diane Cole | Thursday, March 25, 2021
Man of Faith—and Doubt

Man of Faith—and Doubt

Hugh Nissenson should have been better known for his spare historical novels

by Diane Cole | Thursday, January 02, 2014

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 week 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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