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Author (The Lost; An Odyssey; Three Rings; The Elusive Embrace); Critic; translator (#Cavafy, Homerโ€™s #Odyssey); #Classics; Editor-at-Large @nybooks; Director @silversfound ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

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@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social at American University
@theimmigrationlab.bsky.social

02.11.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Seems about right.

25.09.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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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 โ€ฆ

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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ยซย Aucune expression, aucune peinture ne peut rendre la rage qui saisit les รฉcrivains quand leur amour-propre souffreโ€ฆย ยป

#Balzac, ยซย Illusions perduesย ยป (1837-43)

24.08.2025 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Drama Queens with Daniel Mendelsohn Join Daniel Mendelsohn for a four-part live webinar series. About this series The figure of the tragic heroineโ€”suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductiveโ€”has...

Delighted to announce my forthcoming online #literature seminars for @nybooks, โ€œDrama Queens: Literary Heroines from Homer to Tennessee Williams.โ€ We begin next month w a six-part seminar on the #Odyssey!

@penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

www.nybooks.com/events/drama...

05.08.2025 13:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œAny interference of the State with the literary or scientific pursuits of the People is tyrannical in its origins, its essence and its effects.โ€

Constantine #Cavafy, reading note on #Gibbonโ€™s โ€œDecline and Fallโ€ (2.13)

15.08.2025 18:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Drama Queens with Daniel Mendelsohn Join Daniel Mendelsohn for a four-part live webinar series. About this series The figure of the tragic heroineโ€”suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductiveโ€”has...

Delighted to announce my forthcoming online #literature seminars for @nybooks, โ€œDrama Queens: Literary Heroines from Homer to Tennessee Williams.โ€ We begin next month w a six-part seminar on the #Odyssey!

@penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

www.nybooks.com/events/drama...

05.08.2025 13:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank god for @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's appearance in the piece

03.08.2025 14:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

Very proud to announce this yearโ€™s winners of the Robert B. Silvers Foundationโ€™s
Silvers Grants for Work in Progress:

silversfoundation.org/2025-grant-r...

02.08.2025 12:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The next Oppenheimer? Christopher Nolanโ€™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

I spoke to The Times (UK) about my hopes and fears for the #ChristopherNolan #Odyssey film:

www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

01.08.2025 17:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ok I just gotta say that โ€œGiri/Hajiโ€ is the wackiest thing Iโ€™ve seen in a long long timeโ€ฆwhich isnโ€™t to say Iโ€™m not enjoying it. But mamma mia!

31.07.2025 01:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Episode 7: Daniel Mendelsohn and Lewis H. Lapham The latest episode of The World in Time.

Listen to the latest episode of the podcast with @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social โ€” 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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Green Terror | Homer A reading from Daniel Mendelsohnโ€™s new translation of The Odyssey.

A reading from @danielmendelsohn.bsky.socialโ€™s new translation of The Odyssey. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/g...

18.07.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 ๐Ÿ“š

02.07.2025 00:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If the Democrats canโ€™t make hay out of this repellent Bill, relentlessly explaining to the people what has been done to them, they donโ€™t deserve to go on existing as a party.

02.07.2025 14:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social You and Umberto Eco weighing heavily in Julyโ€™s issue of Vogue Greece.

29.06.2025 15:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If only! ;-)

27.06.2025 20:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œViewed from the heights of reason, all life looks like some malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.โ€

โ€”Goethe (quoted by Thomas Mann in โ€œGoetheโ€™s Career As a Man of Letters,โ€ 1932)

12.06.2025 03:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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

Friends and #Homer & #Classics lovers in #Connecticut! Iโ€™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...

11.06.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Culture diet #2 More of what I've been reading and seeing lately.

My recent culture diet: a grammar documentary, a Covid memoir, a new Odyssey, โ€œParade,โ€ 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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Amen.

29.05.2025 07:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Daniel Mendelsohn interview with his mother, Marlene
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Daniel Mendelsohn interview with his mother, Marlene

I did an interview with my Mom a few years back for PBS, discussing my book about retracing the Odyssey with my late dadโ€”if you want to get a flavor of mom, this is a fun way!

youtu.be/z2zXdbKeZ4E

27.05.2025 22:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks so much Emily โ€”I was! X

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Since many of you have appreciated the fabulous wit of my mom over the years, Iโ€™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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œThe Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excisesโ€ฆ
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nationsโ€ฆโ€

โ€” The Constitution

25.05.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2012    ๐Ÿ” 371    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 93    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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Opinion | The Man of the Moment Is 3,000 Years Old We could never really be sure who he was. Maybe that was the point.

Having taught the Odyssey for nearly four decades, @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social โ€œcanโ€™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.โ€

24.05.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The Man of the Moment Is 3,000 Years Old

In this guest essay for @nytopinion.bsky.social, I wrote about #Homerโ€™s #Odyssey and why it feels so modern:

#literature #classics #Greece @uchicagopress.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...

24.05.2025 12:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œAnd I thought at once of death; for the beautiful is sometimes a sorrow of anticipation.โ€

โ€œDream of a Summer Dayโ€ (from โ€˜Japanese Ghost Stories,โ€™ tr. Lafcadio Hearn)

24.05.2025 05:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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