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Lisa Zeidner

Lisa Zeidner is the author of five novels, most recently Love Bomb, as well as the nonfiction book <emWho Says? Mastering Point of View in Fiction. She directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University–Camden.

Sex and Secrets

Sex and Secrets

Rare is the Hitchcock film that celebrates desire without disaster

by Lisa Zeidner | Saturday, December 04, 2021
Sex and the Single Woman

Sex and the Single Woman

Rediscovering the novels of Iris Owens

by Lisa Zeidner | Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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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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