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Madison Smartt Bell

Madison Smartt Bell is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction. He co-directs the creative writing program at Goucher College.

What a Long, Strange Trip It Was

What a Long, Strange Trip It Was

The explosive writer who created worlds alien and mundane

by Madison Smartt Bell | Thursday, June 30, 2022
Letter from Haiti: After the Earthquake

Letter from Haiti: After the Earthquake

by Madison Smartt Bell | Tuesday, December 02, 2014

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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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