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Gwyneth Kelly

Gwyneth Kelly is an MFA student in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her writing has appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The Barcelona Review.

Six Westerns that Set Their Sights Beyond the Horizon

Six Westerns that Set Their Sights Beyond the Horizon

Going past gunslingers

by Gwyneth Kelly | Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Writing Time

Writing Time

A novelist confronts the perennial question of how to fill the hours, fictional or otherwise

by Gwyneth Kelly | Tuesday, March 24, 2020
New Zealand: Beauty and the Beef

New Zealand: Beauty and the Beef

Will the nation’s identity continue to be pastoral, or will its urbanites create a hip young image of environmental awareness?

by Gwyneth Kelly | Monday, December 03, 2018

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died this 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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