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Sally Greene

Sally Greene lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she serves on the Orange County Board of Commissioners. Her essays have appeared in the Scholar, Journal of Modern Literature, Mosaic, The Southern Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is also the editor of The Edward Tales, a forthcoming collection of works by Elizabeth Spencer.

Where I End and We Begin

Where I End and We Begin

A writer reimagines her life by blending it with others

by Sally Greene | Tuesday, March 01, 2022
When History Rhymes

When History Rhymes

The Nikole Hannah-Jones controversy calls to mind an earlier racially motivated effort to stifle free speech at the University of North Carolina

by Sally Greene | Thursday, July 08, 2021
The Birth of Black Power

The Birth of Black Power

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement

by Sally Greene | Monday, April 26, 2021

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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