Year in Reading A Year in Reading: Thomas Beckwith Thom Beckwith - 12.21.2012 As always when I read Banville, I couldn't believe his deftness -- how easily, for example, he rolls off a pun; how well he understands the nuance of Latinate terminology; how aptly, above all, that he paints fate as a wolf at the door. Thom Beckwith - 12.21.2012