The critic and memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn is writing a book about Greek literature for Simon & Schuster. Mr. Mendelsohn published his last major work of nonfiction, The Lost, with the flagship imprint of HarperCollins, but was apparently unsatisfied with the offer that his editor there, Tim Duggan, made on the new book based on the Read More
After Barbara Epstein died of lung cancer on Friday, June 16, at the age of 77, it was natural for the large circle of people—many of whom came to know her over four decades of editing The New York Review of Books—to remember her intellectual prowess and her skill as an editor.
Also her bubbly, Read More
“That this man is standing in front of me and everyone else in this room is lying to us is heresy. The truth is all that matters. This is fucking heresy.”—James Frey, A Million Little Pieces, page 178
“If you’re an addict whose life has been moved by this story, and you feel that what Read More
Eric Mendelsohn was attempting to conquer one of his fears. It was 1 o’clock on a frigid January afternoon, and Mr. Mendelsohn, a 35-year-old film director who grew up on Long Island and has paralyzing fears of many things-including frogs-was standing with his nose close to the glass of a terrarium in the amphibian and Read More
The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity , by Daniel Mendelsohn. Alfred A. Knopf, 206 pages, $24.
In this confessional age, in which memoirs and personal revelations tumble out in unprecedented abundance, Daniel Mendelsohn’s new book stands as a literary achievementofthefirst rank. In a series of five chapters he traces the evolution of Read More
