Daniel Mendelsohn
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social
Author (The Lost; An Odyssey; Three Rings; The Elusive Embrace); Critic; translator (#Cavafy, Homer’s #Odyssey); #Classics; Editor-at-Large @nybooks; Director @silversfound 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇬🇷🇳🇴🏳️🌈
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What can a 3,000-year-old story teach us about migration, identity, and belonging? Join author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn for The Odyssey and Its Migrations: Displacement, Wandering, Identity, a modern look at Homer’s timeless epic.
📅 Thurs, Nov. 6 | RSVP: https://bit.ly/3X56mRw
📅 Thurs, Nov. 6 | RSVP: https://bit.ly/3X56mRw
November 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Seems about right.
September 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Seems about right.
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The Odyssey: "the right book in the right hands of the right person" @jackewilson.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social #greatbooks
The 25 Greatest Books of All Times Series: #24 The Odyssey
Check out Episode 720 in which Jacke takes a special look at The Odyssey, which ranks #24 on his list of the 25 Greatest Books of All Time.
The story continues to …
www.historyofliterature.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The Odyssey: "the right book in the right hands of the right person" @jackewilson.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social #greatbooks
« Aucune expression, aucune peinture ne peut rendre la rage qui saisit les écrivains quand leur amour-propre souffre… »
#Balzac, « Illusions perdues » (1837-43)
#Balzac, « Illusions perdues » (1837-43)
August 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
« Aucune expression, aucune peinture ne peut rendre la rage qui saisit les écrivains quand leur amour-propre souffre… »
#Balzac, « Illusions perdues » (1837-43)
#Balzac, « Illusions perdues » (1837-43)
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Delighted to announce my forthcoming online #literature seminars for @nybooks, “Drama Queens: Literary Heroines from Homer to Tennessee Williams.” We begin next month w a six-part seminar on the #Odyssey!
@penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/events/drama...
@penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/events/drama...
Drama Queens with Daniel Mendelsohn
Join Daniel Mendelsohn for a four-part live webinar series. About this series The figure of the tragic heroine—suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductive—has...
www.nybooks.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Delighted to announce my forthcoming online #literature seminars for @nybooks, “Drama Queens: Literary Heroines from Homer to Tennessee Williams.” We begin next month w a six-part seminar on the #Odyssey!
@penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/events/drama...
@penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/events/drama...
Delighted to announce my forthcoming online #literature seminars for @nybooks, “Drama Queens: Literary Heroines from Homer to Tennessee Williams.” We begin next month w a six-part seminar on the #Odyssey!
@penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/events/drama...
@penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/events/drama...
Drama Queens with Daniel Mendelsohn
Join Daniel Mendelsohn for a four-part live webinar series. About this series The figure of the tragic heroine—suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductive—has...
www.nybooks.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Delighted to announce my forthcoming online #literature seminars for @nybooks, “Drama Queens: Literary Heroines from Homer to Tennessee Williams.” We begin next month w a six-part seminar on the #Odyssey!
@penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/events/drama...
@penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/events/drama...
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Thank god for @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's appearance in the piece
August 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thank god for @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's appearance in the piece
Very proud to announce this year’s winners of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation’s
Silvers Grants for Work in Progress:
silversfoundation.org/2025-grant-r...
Silvers Grants for Work in Progress:
silversfoundation.org/2025-grant-r...
2025 Grant Recipients - The Robert B. Silvers Foundation
2025 Recipients Mark Chiusano Mark Chiusano is a journalist and the author of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos, and the story collection...
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August 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Very proud to announce this year’s winners of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation’s
Silvers Grants for Work in Progress:
silversfoundation.org/2025-grant-r...
Silvers Grants for Work in Progress:
silversfoundation.org/2025-grant-r...
I spoke to The Times (UK) about my hopes and fears for the #ChristopherNolan #Odyssey film:
www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
The next Oppenheimer? Christopher Nolan’s new film is selling out already
A year before its release, tickets have been snapped up for screenings of The Odyssey with Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Zendaya
www.thetimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I spoke to The Times (UK) about my hopes and fears for the #ChristopherNolan #Odyssey film:
www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
Ok I just gotta say that “Giri/Haji” is the wackiest thing I’ve seen in a long long time…which isn’t to say I’m not enjoying it. But mamma mia!
July 31, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Ok I just gotta say that “Giri/Haji” is the wackiest thing I’ve seen in a long long time…which isn’t to say I’m not enjoying it. But mamma mia!
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Listen to the latest episode of the podcast with @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social — plus archival audio of Lewis H. Lapham talking about his childhood reading of Moby-Dick. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
Episode 7: Daniel Mendelsohn and Lewis H. Lapham
The latest episode of The World in Time.
www.laphamsquarterly.org
July 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Listen to the latest episode of the podcast with @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social — plus archival audio of Lewis H. Lapham talking about his childhood reading of Moby-Dick. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
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A reading from @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social’s new translation of The Odyssey. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/g...
Green Terror | Homer
A reading from Daniel Mendelsohn’s new translation of The Odyssey.
www.laphamsquarterly.org
July 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A reading from @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social’s new translation of The Odyssey. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/g...
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The Lost: a search for six of six million by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social has stayed with me for months since I happened across it at the library. #BookSky 📚
July 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The Lost: a search for six of six million by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social has stayed with me for months since I happened across it at the library. #BookSky 📚
If the Democrats can’t make hay out of this repellent Bill, relentlessly explaining to the people what has been done to them, they don’t deserve to go on existing as a party.
July 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
If the Democrats can’t make hay out of this repellent Bill, relentlessly explaining to the people what has been done to them, they don’t deserve to go on existing as a party.
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@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social You and Umberto Eco weighing heavily in July’s issue of Vogue Greece.
June 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social You and Umberto Eco weighing heavily in July’s issue of Vogue Greece.
“Viewed from the heights of reason, all life looks like some malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.”
—Goethe (quoted by Thomas Mann in “Goethe’s Career As a Man of Letters,” 1932)
—Goethe (quoted by Thomas Mann in “Goethe’s Career As a Man of Letters,” 1932)
June 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
“Viewed from the heights of reason, all life looks like some malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.”
—Goethe (quoted by Thomas Mann in “Goethe’s Career As a Man of Letters,” 1932)
—Goethe (quoted by Thomas Mann in “Goethe’s Career As a Man of Letters,” 1932)
Friends and #Homer & #Classics lovers in #Connecticut! I’ll be speaking about my new #translation of the #Odyssey at the @wiltonlibrary tomorrow evening 12 June, in conversation with Max Gabrielson. details below!
wilton.librarycalendar.com/event/daniel...
wilton.librarycalendar.com/event/daniel...
Author Talk: Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation with Max Gabrielson | Wilton Library
Celebrated author, critic, and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn will join Wilton High School's beloved classics teacher Max Gabrielson in conversation about Mendelsohn's new translation of Homer's
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June 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Friends and #Homer & #Classics lovers in #Connecticut! I’ll be speaking about my new #translation of the #Odyssey at the @wiltonlibrary tomorrow evening 12 June, in conversation with Max Gabrielson. details below!
wilton.librarycalendar.com/event/daniel...
wilton.librarycalendar.com/event/daniel...
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My recent culture diet: a grammar documentary, a Covid memoir, a new Odyssey, “Parade,” and more. Feat. @grammartable.bsky.social @charlesfinch.bsky.social @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social @philtinline.bsky.social @edgarwright.bsky.social fritinancy.substack.com/p/culture-di...
Culture diet #2
More of what I've been reading and seeing lately.
fritinancy.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
My recent culture diet: a grammar documentary, a Covid memoir, a new Odyssey, “Parade,” and more. Feat. @grammartable.bsky.social @charlesfinch.bsky.social @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social @philtinline.bsky.social @edgarwright.bsky.social fritinancy.substack.com/p/culture-di...
I did an interview with my Mom a few years back for PBS, discussing my book about retracing the Odyssey with my late dad—if you want to get a flavor of mom, this is a fun way!
youtu.be/z2zXdbKeZ4E
youtu.be/z2zXdbKeZ4E
Daniel Mendelsohn interview with his mother, Marlene
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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May 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I did an interview with my Mom a few years back for PBS, discussing my book about retracing the Odyssey with my late dad—if you want to get a flavor of mom, this is a fun way!
youtu.be/z2zXdbKeZ4E
youtu.be/z2zXdbKeZ4E
Since many of you have appreciated the fabulous wit of my mom over the years, I’m sorry to share that she died this morning, aged 94. She was an unforgettable mom, amazing teacher & tireless environmental activist. Her humor, intelligence, beauty & wild sense of fun will be missed.
May 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Since many of you have appreciated the fabulous wit of my mom over the years, I’m sorry to share that she died this morning, aged 94. She was an unforgettable mom, amazing teacher & tireless environmental activist. Her humor, intelligence, beauty & wild sense of fun will be missed.
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“The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises…
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations…”
— The Constitution
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations…”
— The Constitution
lol Trump now says his new tariffs against the EU are delayed until July 9
May 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises…
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations…”
— The Constitution
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations…”
— The Constitution