The first sentence Tara Westover writes in her engrossing memoir Educated is a disclaimer: “This story is not about Mormonism.” This is true in the same ...

John Durham Peters
John Durham Peters is the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and a professor of film and media studies at Yale University. He is coauthor, with the late Kenneth Cmiel, of Promiscuous Knowledge: Image, Information, and Other Truth Games in History, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.