Hilary Mantel | The New York Review of Books

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

March 21, 2017

Remigius van Leemput's 1667 copy of Hans Holbein's

How to Play ‘Wolf Hall’

Hilary Mantel’s suggestions to actors in the stage adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies

March 27, 2015

Naipaul’s Book of the World

October 10, 2013 issue

King Henry VIII of England; sixteenth-century portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger

Bring Up the Bodies: An Inquisition

July 12, 2012 issue

Portrait of Henry VIII from The Psalter of Henry VIII, circa 1540

Bring Up the Bodies

An excerpt from the sequel to ‘Wolf Hall’

June 21, 2012 issue

‘The Concert in an Egg’; painting after Hieronymus Bosch, circa 1561

The Magic of Keith Thomas

June 7, 2012 issue

William Hogarth: The Denunciation; or, A Woman Swearing a Child to a Grave Citizen, 1729. In The Ends of Life, Keith Thomas writes of this painting, ‘Masculine honour was vulnerable to malicious paternity suits. [Here] a pregnant girl is being coached by her lover into swearing before a magistrate that a respectable elderly citizen (apparently a Dissenting clergyman) is the father of her child.’

Dreams & Duels of England

The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

by Keith Thomas

October 22, 2009 issue

A prostitute in the Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Mexico City, 1934

The War Against Women

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women, Volume I: Origins

by Marilyn French, with a foreword by Margaret Atwood

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women, Volume II: The Masculine Mystique

by Marilyn French, with a foreword by Margaret Atwood

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women, Volume III: Infernos and Paradises, the Triumph of Capitalism in the 19th Century

by Marilyn French, with a foreword by Margaret Atwood

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women, Volume IV: Revolutions and the Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century

by Marilyn French, with a foreword by Margaret Atwood

April 30, 2009 issue

Cromwell & Wolsey: From ‘Wolf Hall’

August 14, 2008 issue

From ‘Wolf Hall’

July 17, 2008 issue

The Shadow Line

Diary of a Bad Year

by J.M. Coetzee

January 17, 2008 issue

The Fate of a Demon

Fieldwork

by Mischa Berlinski

July 19, 2007 issue

Insight Without Anger

Family Romance: A Love Story

by John Lanchester

April 12, 2007 issue

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

January 11, 2007 issue

Revelations for the West

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

by Pankaj Mishra

September 21, 2006 issue

Crime & Punishment

November 17, 2005 issue

The Right to Life

The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions

by Sister Helen Prejean

May 12, 2005 issue

Letter

John Harding

Crime & Punishment

November 17, 2005 issue

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

February 10, 2005 issue

Letter

Nancy Hoffman

Support the Feminist Press

March 10, 2005 issue

The Hour Before Dawn

The Songs of the Kings

by Barry Unsworth

October 9, 2003 issue

Strange News

Mortals

by Norman Rush

September 25, 2003 issue