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Waiting For The Barbarians: Essays From The Classics To Pop CultureStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionOver the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews for "The New York Review of Books," "The New Yorker," and "The New York Times Book Review" have earned him a reputation as "one of the greatest critics of our time" ("Poets& Writers"). In "Waiting for the Barbarians," he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays--each one glinting with "verve and sparkle," "acumen and passion"--on a wide range of subjects, from "Avatar" to the poems of Arthur Rimbaud, from our inexhaustible fascination with the "Titanic" to Susan Sontag's "Journals." Trained as a classicist, author of two internationally best-selling memoirs, Mendelsohn moves easily from penetrating considerations of the ways in which the classics continue to make themselves felt in contemporary life and letters (Greek myth in the "Spider-Man" musical, Anne Carson's translations of Sappho) to trenchant takes on pop spectacles--none more explosively controversial than his dissection of "Mad Men." Author descriptionDaniel Mendelsohn's reviews and essays on literary and cultural subjects appear frequently in "The New York Review of Books" and"The New Yorker." His books include a memoir, "The Elusive Embrace," a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; the international best seller "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million"; an acclaimed translation of the works of C. P. Cavafy; and a previous collection of essays, "How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken." He teaches at Bard College. |