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Sara Mansfield Taber

Sara Mansfield Taber is the author, most recently, of Black Water and Tulips: My Mother, the Spy's Wife and Born Under an Assumed Name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy’s Daughter. A writer and psychologist, she is also the author of  two books of literary journalism.

Wartime Echoes

Wartime Echoes

Shakespeare and the news from Ukraine

by Sara Mansfield Taber | Tuesday, March 08, 2022
A Desperate Escape

A Desperate Escape

The events in Kabul recall terrible scenes in The Aeneid

by Sara Mansfield Taber | Saturday, September 18, 2021
Saigon Summer

Saigon Summer

A spy’s daughter remembers the haunting unreality of embassy life in South Vietnam before the fall

by Sara Mansfield Taber | Monday, June 08, 2015
“I Will Die a Russian”

“I Will Die a Russian”

A marriage of convenience that yielded an intelligence bonanza

by Sara Mansfield Taber | Monday, June 05, 2017

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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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