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Matthew Denton-Edmundson

Matthew Denton-Edmundson is a writer who divides his time among Florida, Idaho, and rural Virginia. He wrote the cover story on wild ginseng for our Autumn 2022 issue.

The Pain Principle

The Pain Principle 

What if the animal rights movement abandoned its focus on suffering and appealed to a different set of human emotions?

by Matthew Denton-Edmundson | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
The Root Problem

The Root Problem

Harvesting wild ginseng has sustained Appalachian communities for generations—so what will happen when there are no more plants to be found?

by Matthew Denton-Edmundson | Thursday, September 01, 2022

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.

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