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Coco and the Chairman

Coco and the Chairman

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by Pamela Petro | Wednesday, June 01, 2022
Jo & Drac

Jo & Drac

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by Pamela Petro | Tuesday, March 01, 2022
Bartleby the Scrivener

Bartleby the Scrivener

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by Pamela Petro | Wednesday, December 01, 2021
The Dating Game

The Dating Game

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by Pamela Petro | Sunday, September 26, 2021
Emma and Muhammad

Emma and Muhammad

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by Pamela Petro | Wednesday, June 02, 2021
Frida and Emily

Frida and Emily

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by Pamela Petro | Thursday, March 18, 2021
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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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