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Remembering Pioneer 11

Remembering Pioneer 11

by Our Editors | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Remembering Pianist William Kapell

Remembering Pianist William Kapell

by Our Editors | Thursday, December 01, 2022
Remembering George Walker

Remembering George Walker

by Our Editors | Thursday, September 01, 2022
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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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