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Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn

Editor at Large at The New York Review of Books

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The Bacchae: Ecstasy & Terror | Daniel Mendelsohn - The New York Review of Books

[caption id=“attachment_41380” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”] ‘The death of Pentheus’; detail of a red-figure cup by the Athenian painter Douris, circa 480 BC[/caption] In the spring of 411 BC, the comic playwright Aristophanes presented to the citizens of Athens a new work, Thesmophoriazousae, lampooning the tragedian Euripides. The tongue-twisting title of the play means “Women Celebrating the Thesmophoria,” a reference to an annual all-female rite held in honor of the fertility goddess Dem…
about 10 years ago
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Robert B. Silvers (1929–2017) | Daniel Mendelsohn

Even as illness began to sap his legendary energy, Bob would lift the receiver when the office called and declaim his favorite greeting: “Hello, hello, hello!” The enthusiasm, bonhomie, and openness to possibility in that triple salutation were characteristic of Bob and defined his approach to editing “the paper.”
over 7 years ago
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The Power of the Critic: A Discussion | Manohla Dargis - The New Yo...

Lucas Zwirner, Manohla Dargis, Antwaun Sargent, Jillian Steinhauer, and Daniel Mendelsohn at David Zwirner Gallery, September 23, 2019 On September 23, 2019, The New York Review of Books and David Zwirner Books held the first in a four-part series of public talks bringing together leading writers, artists, and thinkers to explore the role of power within the cultural sphere. The series launched with “The Power of the Critic,” a conversation about the evolving role of critics, publications,…
almost 5 years ago
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Ingmar Bergman, Novelist | Daniel Mendelsohn

As he entered old age and grew increasingly exasperated with filmmaking, Ingmar Bergman turned to another medium, one that would allow him to revisit one particular “framework of reality”—his parents’ lives and doomed marriage—and weave an entirely new kind of pattern from it. That medium was fictio…
over 4 years ago
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The Robots Are Winning! | Daniel Mendelsohn

We have been dreaming of robots since Homer. In Book 18 of the Iliad, Achilles’ mother, the nymph Thetis, wants to order a new suit of armor for her son, and so she pays a visit to the Olympian atelier of the blacksmith-god Hephaestus, whom she finds hard at work on a series of automata.
over 4 years ago
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In Gay and Crumbling England | Daniel Mendelsohn

1. Early on in Alan Hollinghurst’s big new novel—his first in seven years, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his Man Booker–winning The Line of
about 4 years ago
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Why She Fell | Daniel Mendelsohn

Looking back at the Spider-Man fiasco, it’s possible to see the contours of a familiar story: a woman of great talent, overweening artistic ambition, and then humiliation. In the end, Julie Taymor got her Greek drama. Like a character in some Attic play, she was led by a single-minded passion to bet…
about 4 years ago
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The Truth Force at the Met | Daniel Mendelsohn

1. Good people do not, generally speaking, make good subjects for operas. Like the Greek tragedies that the sixteenth-century Venetian inventors of opera
about 4 years ago
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Finding a Path Through the Odyssey | Daniel Mendelsohn - The New Yo...

[caption id=“attachment_71461” align=“aligncenter” width=“1071”] Great Synagogue of Bolechów, Bolekhiv, in present day Ukraine, 2001[/caption] For a period of several years early in the new century I was working on a book the research for which required me to travel extensively throughout the United States, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, and Australia. I went to those places in order to interview a number of survivors of, and witnesses to, certain events that took place during World War I…
about 4 years ago
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Words and Other Violence | by Daniel Mendelsohn | The New York Revi...

1. In a year-end roundup of “Four Books That Deserved More Attention in 2017,” the New Yorker critic James Wood, who had placed Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go,
over 3 years ago
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Robert Gottlieb (1931–2023) | Daniel Mendelsohn

It is probably safe to say that until the early evening of June 14, readers of serious newspapers and intellectual journals such as this one were unlikely
over 1 year ago