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Juli Berwald

Juli Berwald is an ocean scientist and science writer based in Austin, Texas. She has written for The New York Times, National Geographic, Texas Monthly, and Wired, among other publications. Her most recent book is Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs.

The Corals and the Capitalist

The Corals and the Capitalist

The key to avoiding an ecological catastrophe might be found in the wealth of nations and the spirit of innovation

by Juli Berwald | Thursday, December 01, 2022

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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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