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Randall Kenan

Randall Kenan is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina and the author of A Visitation of Spirits and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, among other books.

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Visible Man

An intimate view of a great American writer

by Randall Kenan | Monday, December 02, 2019

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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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