Joseph North

Joseph North is completing a PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.  His dissertation is a history and theorization of the project of aesthetic education as it relates to literary study.


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The Iliad: A Romance

The first thing that needs to be said about the winner of this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction—The Song of Achilles, a retelling of the Iliad by first-time novelist Madeline Miller—is that it is a pleasure to read a version of the Trojan war in which Achilles and Patroclus are in a devoted partnership, sex […]