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Janna Malamud Smith

Janna Malamud Smith  is a writer and psychotherapist and the author of Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life; A Potent Spell; My Father Is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud; and An Absorbing Errand: How Artists and Craftsmen Make Their Way to Mastery. Her essay in the Spring 2008 SCHOLAR, "Shipwrecked," was published in Best American Essays 2009.

The Scar on the Hand

The Scar on the Hand

Writers and the early loss of parents

by Janna Malamud Smith | Thursday, April 28, 2022
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An Italian Tragedy

Discovering a World War II tale that mesmerizes, then horrifies

by Janna Malamud Smith | Wednesday, March 02, 2011
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Shipwrecked

Like Robinson Crusoe after the storm, a daughter salvages what she can after her mother’s death

by Janna Malamud Smith | Saturday, March 01, 2008

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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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