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Jan Morris

Jan Morris has written some 40 books of history, travel, biography, memoir, and fiction.

Keep Smiling

Keep Smiling

An agnostic sermon

by Jan Morris | Monday, June 09, 2014
England, My England

England, My England

The poet whose bucolic lyrics defined a generation

by Jan Morris | Monday, June 05, 2017
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A Very Embodiment of Simple Goodness

by Jan Morris | Monday, December 19, 2016
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A Very Embodiment of Simple Goodness

by Jan Morris | Monday, August 01, 2016
Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four

The enduring influence of a quartet of Oxford dons

by Jan Morris | Monday, June 08, 2015
Carnival of the Animals

Carnival of the Animals

The Italian artist Carpaccio cast a careful, loving eye on his many nonhuman subjects

by Jan Morris | Monday, September 08, 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 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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