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Daniel Mendelsohn
There’s a lovely article up on the NPR website’s homepage about Mendelsohn’s latest work, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, including an excerpt and a link to an a… more →
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The Lost...A Movie?
jewishbooks wrote 1 month ago: Posted by Naomi Firestone Galleycat just reported that Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost may soon m … more →
April's New Poems Continue to Bloom, Even in June
Henry Mortimer wrote 1 month ago: Perhaps T. S. Eliot was right. April can be one of the cruelest months, especially if you are trying … more →
Constantine Cavafy: Collected Poems
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exchangesjournal wrote 3 months ago: In the New York Times, James Longenbach reviews Greek poet Constantine Cavafy’s Collected Poem … more →
Tragedy
sevenperfumes wrote 3 months ago: What was it that Elaine and George Costanza concluded about men’s and women’s brains and … more →
Slot Machine #10
briansholis wrote 3 months ago: 1) “Even though the idea of originality has been dissected and pulverized by so-called postmod … more →
Daniel Mendelsohn Review
Kyle wrote 4 months ago: Daniel Mendelsohn in The New York Review of Books: “The large success of the book…has mu … more →
C.P. Cavafy: "It Must Have Been the Spirits"
D.S. Loney wrote 5 months ago: I find unfinished poems fascinating and I have probably spent as much time reading Shelley’s f … more →
On books, taste, and distaste
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Jake Seliger wrote 8 months ago: Jason Fisher made this astute observation in an e-mail: One thing I will say, as now a fairly regula … more →
How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken — Daniel Mendelsohn
Jake Seliger wrote 8 months ago: After reading enough fiction—although how much constitutes “enough” probably varies by p … more →
Daniel Mendelsohn
maryignatius wrote 10 months ago: There’s a lovely article up on the NPR website’s homepage about Mendelsohn’s lates … more →
Elipses
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TK wrote 10 months ago: Hello September, nice to see you again, but would you mind coming back later? I’m a bit busy a … more →
The Feeling That Something is Happening
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S&Co. wrote 11 months ago: [pp. 260-261] Surely the most revealing expression of Capote’s difficulty with endings, and al … more →
Intro: Sharp Objects
sadiejean wrote 1 year ago: All right, I failed. I stopped reading The Lost 60 pages into it. It was bad! I’m sorry. S … more →
Intro: The Lost
sadiejean wrote 1 year ago: “Some time ago, when I was six or seven or eight years old, it would occasionally happen that … more →
On Fabulists and their Cultural Appropriation
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ephemerist wrote 1 year ago: In the Times, Daniel Mendelsohn nails what is so despicable about the latest spate of faux memoirs, … more →
Authenticity, Identity, Reality
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Deborah Barlow wrote 1 year ago: I’m recovering from knee surgery, so maybe that is the reason I’m sporting a surlier vie … more →
Jew Wishes On: French Literary Prize Given to Daniel Mendelsohn
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jewwishes wrote 1 year ago: Daniel Mendelsohn, author and critic, was given the French literary prize, the 2007 Prix Medicis, fo … more →
Good News from the Jewish World: The Fight Against Anti-Semitism
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Maya Norton wrote 1 year ago: I could use some good Jewish news right now. How about you? Three Stories of Success in the Fight A … more →
The Lost:A Search for Six of Six Million
maryignatius wrote 2 years ago: The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn If my maternal grandmother were still … more →
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