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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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28.02.2026 13:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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.

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...

28.02.2026 07:35 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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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...

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

25.02.2026 14:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quel plaisir de lire @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social en conversation et en français !
#danielmendelsohn #littérature #traduction #lettresclassiques

14.02.2026 18:12 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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

11.02.2026 19:43 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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...

12.02.2026 13:28 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of Daniel Mendelsohn's new verse translation of The Odyssey

Cover of Daniel Mendelsohn's new verse translation of The Odyssey

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.

28.12.2025 17:38 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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

02.11.2025 17:46 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Seems about right.

25.09.2025 15:09 👍 49 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 4
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24.09.2025 13:09 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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 …

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 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

« Aucune expression, aucune peinture ne peut rendre la rage qui saisit les écrivains quand leur amour-propre souffre… »

#Balzac, « Illusions perdues » (1837-43)

24.08.2025 16:41 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 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 heroine—suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductive—has...

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...

05.08.2025 13:23 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

“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)

15.08.2025 18:26 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 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 heroine—suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductive—has...

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...

05.08.2025 13:23 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

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

03.08.2025 14:34 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 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 year’s winners of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation’s
Silvers Grants for Work in Progress:

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

02.08.2025 12:02 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

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 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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!

31.07.2025 01:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 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 — 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 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Green Terror | Homer A reading from Daniel Mendelsohn’s new translation of The Odyssey.

A reading from @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social’s new translation of The Odyssey. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/g...

18.07.2025 18:21 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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02.07.2025 16:00 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

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 📚

02.07.2025 00:20 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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.

02.07.2025 14:11 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social You and Umberto Eco weighing heavily in July’s issue of Vogue Greece.

29.06.2025 15:33 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

If only! ;-)

27.06.2025 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“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)

12.06.2025 03:49 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 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! 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...

11.06.2025 15:48 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 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, “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...

29.05.2025 13:51 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Amen.

29.05.2025 07:57 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0