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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDAND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARDOver 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*.Also gathered here are essays devoted to the art of fiction, from Jonathan Littell’s Holocaust blockbuster *The Kindly Ones* to forgotten gem

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Author

Mendelsohn, Daniel

Publisher

New York Review Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.94 / 5 (15,187 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14