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Doris Grumbach

Doris Grumbach is the author of seven novels, six books of memoir, and a biography of Mary McCarthy. This essay is part of a larger memoir, Downhill Almost All the Way.

A Whole Day Nearer Now

A Whole Day Nearer Now

But all life’s passion not quite spent

by Doris Grumbach | Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The Remains of My Days

The Remains of My Days

Fond and fading memories of a robust literary life

by Doris Grumbach | Monday, February 29, 2016
The View from 90

The View from 90

Even when those in my generation have reached a state of serenity, wisdom, and relative comfort, what we face can hardly be called the golden years

by Doris Grumbach | Wednesday, March 02, 2011

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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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