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M. G. Lord

M. G. Lord is the author of  The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice. She teaches at the University of Southern California.

From Mojave to the Moon

From Mojave to the Moon

The new space race looks to put the superrich into orbit

by M. G. Lord | Monday, August 23, 2021
Inside the Box

Inside the Box

How we became pod people

by M. G. Lord | Monday, June 09, 2014
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Show, Don’t Tell

by M. G. Lord | Monday, November 17, 2014

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 this 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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