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Daniel Mendelsohn

@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social
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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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Owe Nilsson @owenil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Where else but at the ruins of Odysseus' palace on Ithaca should one read @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social translation.
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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A gentle reminder that, if after seeing the movie you want to read the book, the translation by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social is the best there is. #Homer #Odyssey
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 30/07/2026
“The only side of Odysseus—and indeed of the Odyssey—that you get in Nolan’s film is the negative one.” —@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social
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Artful Weaving | Daniel Mendelsohn
The most authentic thing about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is its densely braided narrative, but its tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
As Much As You Can, by Constantine Cavafy And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it, this much, at least, try to do as much as you can: don't cheapen it with too much intercourse with society... Translation @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social soundcloud.com/yahia-lababi... #poetry
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As Much As You Can, by Constantine Cavafy - read by Yahia Lababidi
As Much As You Can, by Constantine Cavafy And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it, this much, at least, try to do as much as you can: don't cheapen it with too much intercou
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Grégoire Leménager @greglemenager.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
“Je crains que Trump ne cherche à provoquer une crise qui lui permette de suspendre ces élections. Ça, c’est le but à mon avis.” Dixit @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social via @didierjacob.bsky.social
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Daniel Mendelsohn : « Saint-Simon aurait été parfait pour raconter l’affaire Epstein »
Alors que paraît un livre d’entretiens autour de son œuvre et de son parcours, l’auteur du magistral « les Disparus » parle de la situation politique en Amérique, de l’antisémitisme global et de sa pa...
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Ami(e)s parisien(ne)s! Le premier de mes conférences au @cdf1530 (dans la série « Athènes et Jérusalem : #Littérature, #Histoire, Écriture»), aura lieu lundi 2 mars: « Mémoire, Histoire, Les disparus: Écrire la #Shoah pour la prochaine génération » www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
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Mémoire, Histoire, Les Disparus : écrire la Shoah pour la prochaine génération | Collège de France
En s'appuyant sur son expérience de recherche, d'écriture, puis de tournée de ses « Disparus » à travers le monde, Daniel Mendelsohn explore la signification de la Shoah en tant qu'événement à la fois historique et littéraire, à mesure que le temps passe et que l'événement appartient à une nouvelle génération d'écrivains et de lecteurs, qui n'ont plus de contact direct avec l'événement lui-même. De manière un peu provocatrice, il suggère que l’injonction « ne jamais oublier » est, par essence, anti-littéraire : la littérature – parce qu’elle forge un récit vaste et gérable à partir d’événements historiques pour que les cultures puissent l’utiliser – doit « oublier » les histoires individuelles, lissant et façonnant des souvenirs particuliers en paraboles dont nous avons besoin pour vivre.
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...
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Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin
Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...
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Sophie Vallas @sophievallas.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Quel plaisir de lire @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social en conversation et en français ! #danielmendelsohn #littérature #traduction #lettresclassiques
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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Another #MosseLecture to share with you on this #MosseWednesday! Join us at @remarquenyu.bsky.social ✨ this Friday ✨ for "On Exile: A Conversation" with Hisham Matar and @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social 🗓️ February 13 🕙 5 PM 📍60 5th Ave 8th floor go.wisc.edu/k23i74 #EuropeanstudiesatUWMadison
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Ravi de (re)partager le programme de mes conférences au College de France en mars—une série intitulée « Athènes et Jérusalem: Littérature, Histoire, Écriture » Delighted to share the program for my March lectures at the Collège de France next month: www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Lastly, some poetry! I didn't read much this year but @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's new verse translation of The Odyssey made up for it. Surely the best translation currently in print.
Cover of Daniel Mendelsohn's new verse translation of The Odyssey
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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
This Thursday @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social at American University @theimmigrationlab.bsky.social
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Seems about right.
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The Odyssey: "the right book in the right hands of the right person" @jackewilson.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social #greatbooks
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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 …
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
« Aucune expression, aucune peinture ne peut rendre la rage qui saisit les écrivains quand leur amour-propre souffre… » #Balzac, « Illusions perdues » (1837-43)
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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...
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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 heroine—suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductive—has...
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
“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)
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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...
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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 heroine—suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductive—has...
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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Thank god for @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's appearance in the piece
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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...
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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...
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I spoke to The Times (UK) about my hopes and fears for the #ChristopherNolan #Odyssey film: www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
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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
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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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Episode 7: Daniel Mendelsohn and Lewis H. Lapham
The latest episode of The World in Time.
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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A reading from @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social’s new translation of The Odyssey. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/g...
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Green Terror | Homer
A reading from Daniel Mendelsohn’s new translation of The Odyssey.
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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 📚
Cover of the book The Lost: a search for six of six million by Daniel Mendelsohn. The cover is sepia-toned, with faded-back photos of the author's family arrayed around the edges. The words are in a deeper sepia and look like worn stamps or old letterpress. This one grabbed me by the heart and has not yet let go; I don't ever want it to.
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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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Arran Greek @arrangreek.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social You and Umberto Eco weighing heavily in July’s issue of Vogue Greece.
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“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)
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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...
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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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Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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...
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Culture diet #2
More of what I've been reading and seeing lately.
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Amen.
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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
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Daniel Mendelsohn interview with his mother, Marlene
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises… To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations…” — The Constitution
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 24/05/2025
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.”
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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.
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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...
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Opinion | The Man of the Moment Is 3,000 Years Old
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
“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)
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Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Got a copy of @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's new translation of The Odyssey. 🩷 One happy bookseller today! #booksky
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
So much fun doing this with @xavierbonilla.bsky.social ! @penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I spoke about the joys and challenges of #translation and #Homer #Odyssey with Lauren Kane of @nybooks.bsky.social: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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Translating from Troy to Ithaca | Daniel Mendelsohn, Lauren Kane
New translations of Homer are bound to revive millennia-old questions of authorship and ancient diction. As Daniel Mendelsohn writes in the introduction
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Just finished the new Odyssey by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social and I didn’t want it to end. This is the translation of our time and I’ve never read one so true to the world of Homer. Hoping that more translations will come - Euripides and Thucydides next please!
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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
new translation by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social is out!
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Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Just a wonderful evening last night at the incomparable (and apt!) Clio's Books (and bar!) on Grand Avenue in Oakland, with @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social talking about his new translation of The Odyssey, his teenage correspondence with Mary Renault, and other delightful things.
Left: author Daniel Mendelsohn with reddish drink in a clear glass
Right: Clio's Books owner Timothy Don
Background: Books, books, booksSign on large chalkboard reads CLIO'S in large letters and, in smaller letters, "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled" - PlutarchDrawing of Clio, Muse of History, with speech bubble reading "Kindly sing the door SHUT behind you -- Clio"
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
« Qui n’a pas pratiqué la rive gauche de la Seine, entre la rue Saint-Jacques et la rue des Saints-Pères, ne connaît rien à la vie humaine! » #Balzac, « Le père Goriot » (1835)
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Shannon Reed @sreed151.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The 4/7/25 issue of @newyorker.com was spectacular, but my heart chooses @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's piece on the Roman poet Catullus and several translations of his work (as an uneducated buffoon, I had never heard of him before and am enchanted). www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Why Catullus Continues to Seduce Us
Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record of a divided and fascinating self.
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Huzzah!
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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Registration ends tomorrow! My final seminar in the @nybooks.bsky.social #NYRSeminars #literature series on “Tragic Meaning” will be on four plays by #Euripides: don’t miss it! www.eventbrite.com/e/tragic-mea...
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Tragic Meaning: Daniel Mendelsohn on Euripides
Join Daniel Mendelsohn for a four-session webinar on Euripides
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