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Tracy Thompson

Tracy Thompson spent 20 years as a journalist at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Washington Post and is the author of three books, the most recent of which is The New Mind of the South.

Southern Cassandra

Southern Cassandra

Lillian Smith was a writer and a radical who called out her region’s lies about sex and race

by Tracy Thompson | Monday, March 04, 2019

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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