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Will Boast

Will Boastis the author of the short story collection Power Ballads, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award; Epilogue, a memoir; and the novel Daphne.

The Submerged

The Submerged

by Will Boast | Wednesday, December 01, 2021
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Peter Stamm’s Seven Years

A novel of delusion, obsession, and redemption

by Will Boast | Monday, June 22, 2015

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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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