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Thomas Fox Averill

Thomas Fox Averill is Professor Emeritus of English at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. His most recent novel, Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr, was a Willa Literary Award finalist. His short fiction has received an O. Henry Award, and he is currently at work on a series of essays about his family’s part in the Scottish diaspora and the poetry of Robert Burns.

Inside the Burns Unit

Inside the Burns Unit

How Scotland’s national poet brought solace at a time of pain and isolation

by Thomas Fox Averill | Thursday, March 31, 2022

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last week 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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