Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel by David Levine

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt in 2009. (July 2008)

From the Review

July 17, 2008: From 'Wolf Hall'

January 17, 2008: The Shadow Line

Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee

July 19, 2007: The Fate of a Demon

Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski

April 12, 2007: Insight Without Anger*

Family Romance: A Love Story by John Lanchester

January 11, 2007: The Perils of Antoinette*

Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer by Elisabeth de Feydeau, translated from the French by Jane Lizop

September 21, 2006: Revelations for the West*

Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond by Pankaj Mishra

November 17, 2005: Crime & Punishment (letter)

May 12, 2005: The Right to Life*

The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Sister Helen Prejean

February 10, 2005: Voices in the Dark*

Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region edited by M.J. Daymond, Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes, Leloba Molema, Chiedza Musengezi, Margie Orford, and Nobantu Rasebotsa

October 9, 2003: The Hour Before Dawn*

The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth

September 25, 2003: Strange News*

Mortals by Norman Rush

October 24, 2002: Naipaul's Book of the World*

The Writer and the World by V.S. Naipaul, edited and with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra

May 23, 2002: Getting Through*

By the Lake by John McGahern

November 29, 2001: A Past Recaptured*

A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford

A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford

Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford

November 15, 2001: Before the Deluge*

A Legacy by Sybille Bedford

July 19, 2001: The Devil's Playground*

The Constant Gardener by John le Carré

March 29, 2001: The Monster We Know*

A New World Amit Chaudhuri

An Obedient Father Akhil Sharma

Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri

November 30, 2000: Staring at the Medusa's Head*

Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa

June 29, 2000: Conservative Rebel*

Selected Letters of Rebecca West edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Bonnie Kime Scott

May 11, 2000: Figures in a Landscape*

Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx

December 16, 1999: A Legacy*

Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan

December 2, 1999: Growing Up (letter)

May 20, 1999: Killer Children*

Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell by Gitta Sereny

November 5, 1998: Escape Artists*

The Last Resort by Alison Lurie

Park City: New and Selected Stories by Ann Beattie

A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler

February 5, 1998: Not 'Everybody's Dear Jane'*

Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin

Jane Austen: A Life by David Nokes

December 19, 1996: Murder and Memory*

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

June 20, 1996: States of Emergency*

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

April 18, 1996: That Old Black Magic*

Love, Again by Doris Lessing

May 25, 1995: The Mystery of Innocence*

Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

February 16, 1995: Real Magicians*

East, West: Stories by Salman Rushdie

The Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories by R.K. Narayan

September 23, 1993: Double Indemnity*

In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif

January 14, 1993: Wraith's Progress*

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

September 24, 1992: On the Edge*

Alma by Gordon Burn

June 11, 1992: Blood Ties*

Ever After by Graham Swift

April 26, 1990: Crime and Puzzlement*

Devices and Desires by P.D. James

November 23, 1989: England, Whose England?*

A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble

Nice Work by David Lodge

From New York Review Books

The Fox in the Attic
A tale of enormous suspense and growing horror, The Fox in the Attic is the widely acclaimed first part of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, "The Human Predicament."
The Wooden Shepherdess
This new edition of the The Wooden Shepherdess concludes with the twelve chapters that Hughes completed of the planned third volume of "The Human Predicament," here published for the first time in America.

Books by Hilary Mantel

The Giant, O'brien: A Novel (1998)
An Experiment in Love (1995)
A Change of Climate (1994)
A Place of Greater Safety (1992)
Fludd (1989)
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988)
Vacant Possession (1986)
Every Day Is Mother's Day (1986)