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Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough

Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough is an essayist and a literary translator. Her collection of essays, Objects of Affection, was published in 2018.

Death in Drohobych

Death in Drohobych

A new biography of a Polish literary master

by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times

The people of Poland step up

by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough | Saturday, March 19, 2022
Little Bowls of Colors

Little Bowls of Colors

Writing in a foreign language can reveal secrets long buried in our mother tongue

by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough | Tuesday, September 06, 2016
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Writing like a Foreigner

by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough | Monday, May 19, 2014
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The Bearable Lightness of Being

If you live long enough and contentedly enough in exile, your feelings of estrangement can evolve into a sense of living two lives at once

by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough | Tuesday, June 01, 2010

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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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