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Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It.

To Live Is an Act of Courage

To Live Is an Act of Courage

The crisis of suicide among our soldiers and veterans must end. Here’s how we can stop it

by Jennifer Michael Hecht | Thursday, September 05, 2013
To Flee or Not to Flee

To Flee or Not to Flee

The stigma of failed courage

by Jennifer Michael Hecht | Wednesday, December 10, 2014
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Words and Music

Two ways of thinking about what our brains can do

by Jennifer Michael Hecht | Saturday, September 01, 2007

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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