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Kyoko Mori

Kyoko Mori teaches creative writing at George Mason University. She is the author of the nonfiction books Yarn, The Dream of Water and Polite Lies, as well as three novels, the most recent of which is Stone Field, True Arrow.

Sheltering in Place with Sei Shōnagon

Sheltering in Place with Sei Shōnagon

The author of The Pillow Book speaks across 10 centuries

by Kyoko Mori | Thursday, June 18, 2020
Living in Cat Time

Living in Cat Time

The pleasures of staying put

by Kyoko Mori | Monday, March 30, 2020
Homebodies

Homebodies

A life spent mainly in the company of cats has meant relishing the comforts of domesticity and solitude

by Kyoko Mori | Monday, December 05, 2016
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Pullovers

Knitting a new life in America after a mother’s suicide, long ago in Japan

by Kyoko Mori | Sunday, June 01, 2008

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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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