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The Naked Flame

by Sudip Bose | Thursday, December 01, 2022
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Late Bloom

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Transitions

by Sudip Bose | Wednesday, June 01, 2022
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Watch This Space

by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, March 01, 2022
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At 90

by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, December 01, 2021
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Critical Thinking

by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, September 01, 2021
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Interlude

by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, June 02, 2021
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Slouching Toward Tyranny

by Robert Wilson | Monday, March 01, 2021
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Unresolved

by Robert Wilson | Monday, December 07, 2020
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Information Sickness

by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, September 01, 2020
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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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