Saturday
February 4, 2023
Subscribe
Print or Web publication

Laura Brodie

Laura Brodie’s books include Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of  Women. She teaches at Washington and Lee University.

Don’t Tell the Tourists

Don’t Tell the Tourists

Hollywood’s surprising links to the antebellum South

by Laura Brodie | Thursday, February 02, 2023

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.

Smarty Pants Podcast

Newsletter

Please enter a valid email address
That address is already in use
The security code entered was incorrect
Thanks for signing up