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Patricia Volk

Patricia Volk is the author of two novels, two collections of short stories, and two memoirs, the most recent of which, Shocked, was an NPR book of the year.

Where's Warhol?

Where's Warhol? 

by Patricia Volk | Thursday, September 01, 2022
Off the Beaten Path

Off the Beaten Path

After four decades, seeing Central Park with fresh eyes

by Patricia Volk | Thursday, November 19, 2020
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Ground Rule

by Patricia Volk | Tuesday, September 01, 2009

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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