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Rosanna Warren

Rosanna Warren is the author of several books, most recently the poetry collection So Forth and Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters.

Foreign Af fairs

Foreign Af fairs

The many lives and loves of the mysterious Saint-John Perse

by Rosanna Warren | Thursday, December 29, 2022
Her Pages Caught Fire

Her Pages Caught Fire

A new biography of a ferociously talented and determined writer

by Rosanna Warren | Thursday, November 11, 2021
The Poet Who Painted

The Poet Who Painted

Max Jacob, who helped introduce Picasso to the French, was a talented artist in his own right

by Rosanna Warren | Wednesday, September 23, 2020

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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