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Jonathan Liebson

Jonathan Liebson teaches writing, literature, and culture at the Eugene Lang College of The New School and at NYU’s School of Professional Studies. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post Book World, Tablet Magazine, Time Out New York, The Georgia Review, and other publications.

Confessions of a Cyclist

Confessions of a Cyclist

Traversing New York City on two wheels can be both life-affirming and perilous

by Jonathan Liebson | Wednesday, June 01, 2022
Taking the Long View

Taking the Long View

Remembering the terror of a pleasant, late-summer morning

by Jonathan Liebson | Saturday, September 11, 2021

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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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