Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn teaches at Bard College, is Editor-at-Large at The New York Review of Books, and the Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. His books include An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic; The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million; the essay collections How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, Waiting for the Barbarians, and Ecstasy and Terror; and Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate. His translation of Homer’s Odyssey will come out next year.

Daniel Mendelsohn

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