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Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Lynne Sharon Schwartz has published novels, short stories, essays and poems. Her latest book is Truthtelling, a collection of stories.

What I Don’t Know

What I Don’t Know

At the heart of my family tree are only questions and mysteries

by Lynne Sharon Schwartz | Thursday, April 14, 2022
“A Refreshing Change Is in Your Future”

“A Refreshing Change Is in Your Future”

Making art out of fortune-cookie wisdom

by Lynne Sharon Schwartz | Thursday, February 18, 2021
The Man Behind the Counter

The Man Behind the Counter 

A neighborhood grocer, inscrutable and gruff, lingers mysteriously in my memory

by Lynne Sharon Schwartz | Monday, March 04, 2019

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

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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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