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Jennifer Sinor

Jennifer Sinor is an essayist and a professor of English at Utah State University.

Creative Destruction

Creative Destruction

The spiritual quest of the alchemist

by Jennifer Sinor | Monday, October 25, 2021
Every Letter is a Love Letter

Every Letter is a Love Letter

You take time to write only when you care

by Jennifer Sinor | Tuesday, March 02, 2021
We Must All Become Yogis

We Must All Become Yogis

An ancient Hindu text offers advice on how to remain sane in uncertain times

by Jennifer Sinor | Monday, May 11, 2020
Confluences

Confluences

As a beloved uncle makes his final journey in the wilderness, a new life begins

by Jennifer Sinor | Saturday, December 01, 2007
Out in the West

Out in the West

The Mormon Church is going mainstream—and leaving its gay members behind

by Jennifer Sinor | Thursday, August 25, 2011
Say Anything

Say Anything

The stories we tell ourselves

by Jennifer Sinor | Monday, June 10, 2013

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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