“Je crains que Trump ne cherche à provoquer une crise qui lui permette de suspendre ces élections. Ça, c’est le but à mon avis.”
Dixit @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social via @didierjacob.bsky.social
Merci! Je crois que vous pourriez regarder en ligne !
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...
Quel plaisir de lire @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social en conversation et en français !
#danielmendelsohn #littérature #traduction #lettresclassiques
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
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...
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.
This Thursday
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social at American University
@theimmigrationlab.bsky.social
Seems about right.
The Odyssey: "the right book in the right hands of the right person" @jackewilson.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social #greatbooks
« Aucune expression, aucune peinture ne peut rendre la rage qui saisit les écrivains quand leur amour-propre souffre… »
#Balzac, « Illusions perdues » (1837-43)
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...
“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)
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...
Thank god for @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's appearance in the piece
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...
I spoke to The Times (UK) about my hopes and fears for the #ChristopherNolan #Odyssey film:
www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
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!
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...
A reading from @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social’s new translation of The Odyssey. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/g...
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 📚
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.
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social You and Umberto Eco weighing heavily in July’s issue of Vogue Greece.
If only! ;-)
“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)
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...
