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.

“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...

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...

Amen.

I did an interview with my Mom a few years back for PBS, discussing my book about retracing the Odyssey with my late dad—if you want to get a flavor of mom, this is a fun way! youtu.be/z2zXdbKeZ4E

Since many of you have appreciated the fabulous wit of my mom over the years, I’m sorry to share that she died this morning, aged 94. She was an unforgettable mom, amazing teacher & tireless environmental activist. Her humor, intelligence, beauty & wild sense of fun will be missed.

“The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises… To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations…” — The Constitution

Having taught the Odyssey for nearly four decades, @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social “can’t remember a time when it has spoken as forcefully to my students as it does today, when so many are embracing fluid identities and asserting their right to self-invention.”

In this guest essay for @nytopinion.bsky.social, I wrote about #Homer’s #Odyssey and why it feels so modern: #literature #classics #Greece @uchicagopress.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...

“And I thought at once of death; for the beautiful is sometimes a sorrow of anticipation.” “Dream of a Summer Day” (from ‘Japanese Ghost Stories,’ tr. Lafcadio Hearn)

Got a copy of @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's new translation of The Odyssey. 🩷 One happy bookseller today! #booksky

So much fun doing this with @xavierbonilla.bsky.social ! @penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

I spoke about the joys and challenges of #translation and #Homer #Odyssey with Lauren Kane of @nybooks.bsky.social: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Just finished the new Odyssey by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social and I didn’t want it to end. This is the translation of our time and I’ve never read one so true to the world of Homer. Hoping that more translations will come - Euripides and Thucydides next please!

new translation by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social is out!

Just a wonderful evening last night at the incomparable (and apt!) Clio's Books (and bar!) on Grand Avenue in Oakland, with @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social talking about his new translation of The Odyssey, his teenage correspondence with Mary Renault, and other delightful things.

« Qui n’a pas pratiqué la rive gauche de la Seine, entre la rue Saint-Jacques et la rue des Saints-Pères, ne connaît rien à la vie humaine! » #Balzac, « Le père Goriot » (1835)

The 4/7/25 issue of @newyorker.com was spectacular, but my heart chooses @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's piece on the Roman poet Catullus and several translations of his work (as an uneducated buffoon, I had never heard of him before and am enchanted). www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Huzzah!

Registration ends tomorrow! My final seminar in the @nybooks.bsky.social #NYRSeminars #literature series on “Tragic Meaning” will be on four plays by #Euripides: don’t miss it! www.eventbrite.com/e/tragic-mea...

#SanFrancisco, here I come! Next Tuesday, 6 May, I’ll be at the @JCCSF.bsky.social in conversation with the distinguished translator of #Hebrew & #Bible #literature Robert Alter about my new #translation of #Homer’s #Odyssey. Ticket info below: www.jccsf.org/event/daniel...

How it all began…

#SanFrancisco, here I come! Next Tuesday, 6 May, I’ll be at the @JCCSF.bsky.social in conversation with the distinguished translator of #Hebrew & #Bible #literature Robert Alter about my new #translation of #Homer’s #Odyssey. Ticket info below: www.jccsf.org/event/daniel...

"Was it something to do with blow jobs? " Quand @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social te donne envie de refaire des versions latines et de lire Catulle :

Full house last night at @rizzolibooks.bsky.social in #NYC for my conversation with @FareedZakaria.bsky.social about my new #Odyssey #translation— so much fun! www.instagram.com/stories/rizz...

Only a few days left to register for the final seminar in my @nybooks.bsky.social #NYRSeminars series on “Tragic Meaning”: four sessions, spread over four Wednesdays in May, on the Bad Boy of #Athens—#Euripides! Signup info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/tragic-mea...

#Chicago friends! I’ll be talking about my new #translation of #Homer #Odyssey with the excellent @shadibartsch.bsky.social at the Chicago Humanities Festival, today (Sunday) at 3:30 pm. Ticket info below: www.chicagohumanities.org/events/atten...

Lovers of Greek #literature and #theater! My next seminar for the @nybooks.com.bsky.social #NYRSeminars series on “Tragic Meaning” is a deep dive the tragedies of #Euripides: 4 Wednesdays, 4 plays. Only one week left to sign up! info below: www.eventbrite.com/e/tragic-mea...

#NYC friends! Next Tuesday the 29th at 6 pm I’ll be talking about my new #translation of #Homer #Odyssey at @rizzolibooks.bsky.social with @cnn.com’s @fareedzakaria.bsky.social —don’t miss it! Signup info below: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-odysse...

Published today in the UK!

1/3 Today, on #YomHaShoah, I commemorate the 88 relatives, on both my mother’s and father’s sides of our family, who were murdered by the Nazis and their local collaborators between 1939 and 1944.

Thrilled to take delivery of the new translation of #Homer's #Odyssey by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social Read such great things about it, can't wait to get started.

#Baltimore friends! Tonight I’ll be speaking about my new #translation of #Homer’s #Odyssey at @birdinhandcafe.bsky.social with Prof. Virginia Jewiss —sign up below! baltimore.org/event/daniel....