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Verlyn Klinkenborg

Verlyn Klinkenborg  is the author of six books, including Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile. He teaches creative writing at Yale University.

A Life’s Work Gone to Seed

A Life’s Work Gone to Seed

The lost cultivations of an often overlooked colonial scientist

by Verlyn Klinkenborg | Monday, June 04, 2018
Red rock formations in the desert are interspersed with cacti and brush

Bonanza of Greed

Myths and lies will, if we let them, spell the end of the public domain

by Verlyn Klinkenborg | Monday, June 03, 2019
Running With the Pack

Running With the Pack

On one of the most successful ecological experiments of all time

by Verlyn Klinkenborg | Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Cosmic Art

Cosmic Art

An inquiry into the scientific significance of elegance

by Verlyn Klinkenborg | Monday, September 07, 2015

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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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