Hilary Mantel
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Literature of the Revolution October 25, 2022
In my mid-teens I developed an obsessional interest in revolutions. I thought of this as a political stance, although when I look back on it now I realised that the idea of the ‘world turned upside down’ was attractive to me because I was miserable a...
Hilary Mantel’s Double Vision October 20, 2022
When Hilary Mantel was a young girl, she started seeing things that weren’t there. Along with the growing pains that plagued her adolescence, she suffered from frequent and debilitating headaches that were often presaged by visual disturbances. Float...
Listening to Ghosts October 04, 2022
In her memoir Giving Up the Ghost, Hilary Mantel describes seeing her stepfather’s ghost on the stairway of a cottage that she was about to sell. She considers that the image might be “nothing more” than a prelude to a migraine — for her these warnin...
Remembering a Singular Prose Stylist September 29, 2022
In the obituaries and articles that have appeared since Hilary Mantel’s death on September 22, the focus has been, understandably, on her historical novels, especially the great trilogy that began with Wolf Hall. The scale and intimacy of her portrai...
The Bravery and Brilliance of Hilary Mantel September 28, 2022
She was a wonderful author who was unafraid to speak her mind....
Hilary Mantel, Prizewinning ‘Wolf Hall’ Author, Dies at 70 September 26, 2022
Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel, whose acclaimed reconsideration of Tudor politics in “Wolf Hall” received major Broadway and television adaptations, died Thursday, her publisher HarperCollins said. She was 70 years old.She died of a stroke...
Mantel & McLuhan Illuminate our Digital Moment August 23, 2022
It’s not clear from public interviews if British novelist Hilary Mantel has read Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan. But hints crop up throughout her Wolf Hall trilogy, which address the court of King Henry VIII through the lens of his adviser ...
Shelf Life August 19, 2022
He has published some of the biggest books of the past 25 years — from Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections to Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winners. Yet that was not enough to keep Nicholas Pearson at the helm of Fourth Estate, the imprint owned by Har...
The Agony of Reading Hilary Mantel March 20, 2020
t is dispiriting being an also-ran. Setting yourself up as a writer takes hubris. It is a wild and outrageous claim that you have something to say, in a voice worth being amplified. Then along comes Hilary Mantel, and you realize with deadening clari...
