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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 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇬🇷🇳🇴🏳️‍🌈
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The decrepit former champion, the SS United States, being towed away, on her way to being sunk: was there ever a better metaphor?

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After a few years in a box from our move, I’m finally getting to this collection by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social and what a treat! A rare critic with a large canvass, rich style, deep intelligence. Every essay a gem and he’s right about Housman and Euripides.

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Recording my #Homer #Odyssey audiobook—fun! (Also, there’s a reason those caesurae exist—those lines are long, you gotta take a breath!)

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Coming in just a few more weeks, my new translation of the #Odyssey! Order from @uchicagopress.bsky.social with code UCPNEW and get a 30% discount:

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Have there been widespread and ongoing campus protests by American undergraduates about the right-wing coup taking place in their own country? Asking for a friend.

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I am the happiest person in New York because i just watched “Metropolitan” again for the first time since it came out. What an absolutely delicious and truly civilized work.

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Lovers of #theater #drama #classics! My four-part online seminar on the work of #Aeschylus, part of my “Tragic Meaning” series for @nybooks, begins on 5 March—sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/tragic-mea...

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Coming in just a few more weeks, my new translation of the #Odyssey! Order from @uchicagopress.bsky.social with code UCPNEW and get a 30% discount:

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South Carolina friends! Tonight in Columbia: www.postandcourier.com/free-times/e...

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There is a word for what we have been witnessing since January 20: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichs...

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Orgulloso de JFG publicando una entrevista sobre la extraordinaria y leal traducción de la odisea por @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social en Oxford Review of Books

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« Pour des êtres qui vivaient surtout par le cerveau, quel meilleur moyen que l’absence d’éterniser un sentiment qui ne résiste pas, d’ordinaire, aux désenchantements quotidiens de la présence, aux brutalités de contact? » Octave Mirbeau, « La mort de #Balzac » (1907)

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Last chance: Study the Iliad with Daniel Mendelsohn (@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social), the first in his next series of seminars, “Tragic Meaning.” Auditor Memberships are still available. Registration ends January 12.

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½ «Pourtant, j’ai sur lui ce détail intime et un peu ridicule, que la nature l’avait parcimonieusement armé pour l’amour. Il est d’autant plus beau que, n’ayant pas—ou si peu —de quoi satisfaire les femmes…

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Auditor subscriptions still available for my six-part #NYRSeminar series for @nybooks.com ! Sign up here : www.eventbrite.com/e/tragic-mea...

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Best present ever !

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What a beautiful book 😍. ‘An Odyssey: A Father, A Son And An Epic’ by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social is the story of Daniel Mendelsohn’s teaching of The Odyssey to his undergrad class, attended by his elderly father and how they learn about each other though the lessons of Homer. Perfect 💙📚

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Never stop being amazed by how much of @cnn reporting is actually advertising for itself.

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Lovers of #Homer #Iliad ! In January-February I’ll be doing the opening seminar of my latest @nybooks #NYRSeminars, "Tragic Meaning”—six sessions in the great war epic! Sign up below—auditor spots still available! #literature #Greece #Classics www.eventbrite.com/e/tragic-mea...

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Oops, below is the correct link to sign up for my six-part online seminar on #Homer #Iliad next January-February — the opening segment of my latest @nybooks #NYRSeminars, "Tragic Meaning." Auditor spots still available! #literature #classics nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Lovers of #Homer and the #Iliad! I'll be leading a six-part online seminar on the great epic next January-February as the opening segment of my latest @nybooks #NYRSeminars, "Tragic Meaning." Sign up link below! #literature #classics #poetry www.eventbrite.com/e/tragic-mea...

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I literally can’t tell if this is a gag or not.

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The headline should be “In unprecedented move Trump says he will fire the FBI director and replace him with a political loyalist.” Instead NYT pretends that this is just another “appointment,” like HHS or Ag.

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“Myth is a kind of soul to the body of poetry.” Eustathios of Thessaloniki, Commentary on the Iliad 152.27

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With fanatics like Patel and Gabbard and compliant types like Hegseth and Bondi in key posts, we'll have four years of constitutional and legal crises. If they're not confirmed and Trump fills the posts with non-confirmed similar types, we'll have four years of constitutional and legal crises.

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Such a nice shoutout for my #Homer #Odyssey —and from such an unexpected quarter: nytacrostics.com/nyt-acrostic...

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