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John King

John King is the San Francisco Chronicle’s urban design critic. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, he is the author of two books on San Francisco’s architecture.

At Play in the Fields of the Bored

At Play in the Fields of the Bored

America’s newest city parks are chock-full of things to do—but what happened to the delights of idle time in a natural setting?

by John King | Monday, March 04, 2019
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City Ways

Urban visions past and future

by John King | Wednesday, December 01, 2010

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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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