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Unburied: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Lessons of Greek TragedyDaniel Mendelsohn is the author, most recently, of “Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture,” a collection of his essays for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book ... |
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Poems join ebook revolution - but progress is not without its hiccupsThe verse of the late Greek poet C.P. Cavafy, who sometimes used extra spaces between words, proved so difficult to set accurately that English-language translator Daniel Mendelsohn settled for an ebook edition much different than what appeared on paper. |
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Get a Life? No Thanks. Just Pass the Remote.I was interested to see Daniel Mendelsohn, one of our most sophisticated literary critics, explicating the subtleties of “Mad Men” in The New York Review of Books with the same close attention he brings to a consideration of “The Iliad.” But why not ... |
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Editorial: Everyone's Rite; Tsarnaev Deserved a Decent BurialProper burial of the dead is a concern that stretches back to the dawn of Western civilization, and figures prominently in the works of the ancient Greeks, as Daniel Mendelsohn of The New Yorker recently pointed out. The unprecedented rejection of this ... |
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Book News: Justice Department Says Apple Led Price-Fixing RingNow, Daniel Mendelsohn takes a closer look in an essay for The New Yorker: "In the end, what entitles [Polyneices] to burial has nothing to do with what side he was on — and it's worth emphasizing the play is not at all shy about enumerating the ... |
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Hello Goodbye Alexandria: A Five-Day Whirlwind Tour of Cavafy's CityDaniel Mendelsohn's introduction to his handsomely designed edition of the Collected Poems (Knopf 2009), with his translations and commentaries, is titled “The Poet-Historian.” In his opening paragraph, Mendelsohn contrasts Cavafy's “flesh-and-blood ... |
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'Mad Men' Is Best When It's AngrySometimes it seems as if only Daniel Mendelsohn and the New York Review of Books can criticize AMC's “Mad Men.” Only someone like Mendelsohn, whose work is devoted to mythic themes and to the eternal, can look past the crisp elegance of Don ... |
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I Love Winnie CooperNot even a first-rate program like “Friday Night Lights,” which the first-rate critic Daniel Mendelsohn extolled as “the finest representation of middle-class marriage in popular culture,” was able to do that. Instead, it relied on high-school football ... |
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Deep in the Shallows: Going mad over Mad MenIt also uses the cheap tricks of soap opera, what Daniel Mendelsohn in The New York Review of Books says is “simultaneously contemptuous and pandering,” allowing the audience to feel superior at a less enlightened time, at the same time it eroticizes ... |
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Mettre les pendules de la poésie à l'heure du numériquePour certains observateurs, comme l'auteur et critique Daniel Mendelsohn, l'évolution de la forme poétique semble inéluctable avec l'ère numérique, et notamment à long terme. Rappelant que les tragédies antiques se trouvaient originairement transcrites ... |
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