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Witold Rybczynski

Witold Rybczynski is the author of Charleston Fancy, his 21st book. His The Story of Architecture will be published next fall.

Portrait of a Marriage in Six Homes

Portrait of a Marriage in Six Homes

The places that sheltered my life with Shirley

by Witold Rybczynski | Monday, February 14, 2022
Building to Last

Building to Last

by Witold Rybczynski | Wednesday, March 03, 2021
Palladio in the Rough

Palladio in the Rough

A South Carolinian builds classical revival houses that really look old

by Witold Rybczynski | Thursday, December 01, 2005
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Rebuilding The Mack

Is the Glasgow School of Art truly irreplaceable?

by Witold Rybczynski | Monday, September 08, 2014
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The Best Advice for Biographers

by Witold Rybczynski | Monday, October 28, 2013
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Words Apart

A writer in Quebec finds that language creates an unbridgeable divide

by Witold Rybczynski | Monday, June 01, 2009

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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