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Roberta Silman

Roberta Silmanis the author of the story collection Blood Relations and of four novels, Boundaries, The Dream Dredger, Beginning the World Again, and Secrets and Shadows. A new novel, Summer Lightning, will be published in 2022. She writes regularly for the online magazine The Arts Fuse.

Alphabet of Joy

Alphabet of Joy

by Roberta Silman | Saturday, November 13, 2021
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The Swiveling Light of Truth

Remembering Grace Paley and her wise, fierce, funny, sad, innovative short stories

by Roberta Silman | Monday, September 01, 2008
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Without Wendy

by Roberta Silman | Sunday, March 01, 2009
The Sugar Road

The Sugar Road

George has never spoken a word. He's not like other boys. What risk is there in trying to unlock the secrets of his silence?

by Roberta Silman | Monday, March 25, 2013

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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