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Jeff Wheelwright

Jeff Wheelwright is the author of three books, most recently The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA. He is at work on a book about Herman Melville in the Holy Land.

The Sierra Nevada: Wildfires in the Wilderness

The Sierra Nevada: Wildfires in the Wilderness

Fire in California has a split personality

by Jeff Wheelwright | Monday, March 29, 2021
Wildfires Revisited

Wildfires Revisited

The Caldor and Dixie blazes are something new

by Jeff Wheelwright | Saturday, September 04, 2021
Force of Nature

Force of Nature

The racing tides beneath Peter Matthiessen’s literary achievement

by Jeff Wheelwright | Monday, June 04, 2018

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 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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