@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 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇬🇷🇳🇴🏳️🌈
This Thursday
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social at American University
@theimmigrationlab.bsky.social
Seems about right.
25.09.2025 15:09 — 👍 48 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 4
24.09.2025 13:09 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Odyssey: "the right book in the right hands of the right person" @jackewilson.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social #greatbooks
05.09.2025 19:58 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0« Aucune expression, aucune peinture ne peut rendre la rage qui saisit les écrivains quand leur amour-propre souffre… »
#Balzac, « Illusions perdues » (1837-43)
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...
“Any interference of the State with the literary or scientific pursuits of the People is tyrannical in its origins, its essence and its effects.”
Constantine #Cavafy, reading note on #Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall” (2.13)
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...
Thank god for @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's appearance in the piece
03.08.2025 14:34 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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...
I spoke to The Times (UK) about my hopes and fears for the #ChristopherNolan #Odyssey 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!
31.07.2025 01:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
18.07.2025 14:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A reading from @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social’s new translation of The Odyssey. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/g...
18.07.2025 18:21 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
02.07.2025 16:00 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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 📚
02.07.2025 00:20 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0If 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.
02.07.2025 14:11 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social You and Umberto Eco weighing heavily in July’s issue of Vogue Greece.
29.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0If only! ;-)
27.06.2025 20:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“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)
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...
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...
29.05.2025 13:51 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Amen.
29.05.2025 07:57 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
Thanks so much Emily —I was! X
27.05.2025 22:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
27.05.2025 21:55 — 👍 73 🔁 2 💬 16 📌 0“The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises…
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations…”
— The Constitution
Having taught the Odyssey for nearly four decades, @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social “can’t remember a time when it has spoken as forcefully to my students as it does today, when so many are embracing fluid identities and asserting their right to self-invention.”
24.05.2025 17:00 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
In this guest essay for @nytopinion.bsky.social, I wrote about #Homer’s #Odyssey and why it feels so modern:
#literature #classics #Greece @uchicagopress.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...
“And I thought at once of death; for the beautiful is sometimes a sorrow of anticipation.”
“Dream of a Summer Day” (from ‘Japanese Ghost Stories,’ tr. Lafcadio Hearn)
