Daniel Mendelsohn, Author . HarperCollins $27.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-06-054297-9
As a boy in the 1960s, Mendelsohn could make elderly relatives cry just by entering the room, so much did he resemble his great-uncle Shmiel Jäger, who had been "killed by the Nazis." This short phrase was all Mendelsohn knew of his...
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Daniel Mendelsohn, Author . Harper $26.95 (456p) ISBN 978-0-06-145643-5
In this elegant collection of essays mostly from the New York Review of Books,
NBCC award–winning author Mendelsohn reveals intellectual breadth in his ability to draw on his training as a classicist to look at contemporary culture, from...
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Daniel Mendelsohn, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-40095-7
Weaving philosophical musings and discussions of Greek myths and drama with his personal experiences, Mendelsohn explores issues of identity, sexuality, fatherhood, family and history in five essays that amount to an idiosyncratic memoir. A lecturer
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Daniel Mendelsohn. New York Review Books, $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-59017-607-8
Wide-ranging and absorbing, this new collection of essays from Mendelsohn (The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million), is a joy from start to finish. Mendelsohn is a critic who consistently takes his subjects seriously, be they TV shows (Mad Men), 3-
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Daniel Mendelsohn. Knopf, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-35059-4
Homeric heroes offer resonant psychological parallels to a modern family in this beguiling memoir. Mendelsohn (The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million) recounts a freshman class on the Odyssey that he taught at Bard College with his father,...
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Daniel Mendelsohn. New York Review Books, $18.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-68137-405-5
Displaying an erudite but accessible prose style, this essay collection is at its best when literary critic Mendelsohn (An Odyssey), who holds a Ph.D. in classics, invokes the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans “as models for thinking about...
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Daniel Mendelsohn. Univ. of Virginia, $19.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-8139-4466-1
Bringing together memoir, history, and literary analysis, critic Mendelsohn (An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic) delivers a fine study of digression, exile, and circularity. Mendelsohn approaches his themes primarily through the lens of Homer’s
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