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Will Yandik

Will Yandik is an environmentalist and writer in Hudson, N.Y.

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Brooklyn in Bloom

by Will Yandik | Thursday, June 27, 2013
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Twain Abroad

by Will Yandik | Monday, June 24, 2013
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If Music Be the Food of Love, Rock On

by Will Yandik | Monday, June 24, 2013
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“… to Muddy Death”

by Will Yandik | Thursday, March 14, 2013
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Scientists Warm Up to Thoreau

by Will Yandik | Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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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