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Hilary Mantel

September 30, 2022

Elaine Showalter

How Hilary Mantel Soared

When Elaine Showalter met the author in 2000, she was on the verge of an intellectual breakthrough.

April 6, 2020

In The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel Finally Takes Cromwell to the Block

The final installment of Mantel’s trilogy is the bloodiest yet—and the saddest.

February 3, 2016

Children of the Century

For writers of historical fiction, fact fades and feeling persists.

October 31, 2014

Suzannah Lipscomb

What You Won't Learn About Thomas Cromwell by Reading Hilary Mantel

April 27, 2014

Hillary Mantel: This Is What It's Like to Be on the Receiving End of a Hate Campaign

November 13, 2013

Why Is Pop Culture So Obsessed With the Middle Ages?

October 17, 2012

Bring the Dead to Life: Mantel's Booker a Boon for Historical Fiction

October 16, 2012

Daniel D'Addario

Alterna-Booker—Different Prize, Same Antics