Posts by: Thomas Berenato

“Because he is me”: on Jill Lepore’s history of Joe Gould and Joseph Mitchell

Jul, 2016 | by

Joe Gould’s Teeth will be many things to many readers, but it advances most forcefully a clear-eyed critique of History and Literature (the name, incidentally, of the academic program Lepore…

“A Picture of Great Detail”: The Art of David Jones

Jan, 2016 | by

The Orchard, Capel-y-ffin, by David Jones, 1920s “And so I make for myself a picture of great detail,” said the great Homer scholar Milman Parry in a 1934 address to…