Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn's translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy were published last year. A collection of his essays mostly from these pages, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, was recently published in paperback. He teaches at Bard. (February 2010)
From the Review
February 11, 2010: The Dream Director
The Sun a film directed by Alexander Sokurov
October 22, 2009: A Wild Night in the Park
The Bacchae by Euripides, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis
March 26, 2009: Transgression
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
January 15, 2009: Oppie in New York
Doctor Atomic an opera in two acts by John Adams, libretto by Peter Sellars, directed by Penny Woolcock, with stage design by Julian Crouch
November 20, 2008: 'As Good as Great Poetry Gets'
November 20, 2008: Myres: Alexandria in 340 AD (poem)
October 9, 2008: Evelyn Waugh Revisited
Brideshead Revisited a film directed by Julian Jarrold, based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh
June 12, 2008: The Truth Force at the Met
Satyagraha an opera in three acts by Philip Glass, directed by Phelim McDermott, with stage design by Julian Crouch
Satyagraha: M. K. Gandhi in South Africa, 1893-1914 by Constance Dejong and Philip Glass
Satyagraha an opera by Philip Glass, performed by Douglas Perry, Claudia Cummings, Rhonda Liss, Robert McFarland, Scott Reeve, Sheryl Woods, and the New York City Opera and Chorus, conducted by Christopher Keene
January 17, 2008: His Design for Living
The Letters of Noël Coward edited and with commentary by Barry Day
November 22, 2007: Looking for 'Lucia'
Lucia di Lammermoor an opera by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, directed by Mary Zimmerman
August 16, 2007: On the Town
The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman edited by Stephen Pascal
May 31, 2007: Duty
300 a film directed by Zack Snyder
April 12, 2007: Singing 'Volver' (letter)
March 1, 2007: The Women of Pedro Almodóvar
Volver a film directed by Pedro Almodóvar
November 30, 2006: Lost in Versailles
Marie Antoinette a film directed by Sofia Coppola
October 19, 2006: Death at Marathon (letter)
September 21, 2006: September 11 at the Movies
United 93 a film directed by Paul Greengrass
World Trade Center a film directed by Oliver Stone
June 8, 2006: The Way Out
Everyman by Philip Roth
May 25, 2006: The Spanish Tragedy
Sepharad by Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
April 6, 2006: 'Brokeback Mountain': An Exchange
February 23, 2006: An Affair to Remember
Brokeback Mountain a film directed by Ang Lee, based on the story by E. Annie Proulx
December 15, 2005: The Last Minstrel
Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth by Steven G. Kellman
November 17, 2005: The Truman Show
Capote a film directed by Bennett Miller, based on the biography by Gerald Clarke
June 23, 2005: Philhellene (poem)
June 23, 2005: She Was from Seattle (letter)
June 9, 2005: Victims on Broadway II
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, directed by Edward Hall
May 26, 2005: Victims on Broadway
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, directed by David Leveaux
February 10, 2005: Correction (letter)
January 13, 2005: Alexander, the Movie!
Alexander a film directed by Oliver Stone
December 16, 2004: Pictures from an Institution
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
December 16, 2004: Nero's Deadline (poem)
December 2, 2004: For the Birds
Frogs by Aristophanes, adapted by Burt Shevelove and Nathan Lane, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and directed by Susan Stroman
July 15, 2004: One of Their Gods (poem)
July 15, 2004: Nailed!
Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction by Dale Peck
June 24, 2004: A Little Iliad
Troy a film directed by Wolfgang Petersen
May 13, 2004: The Strange Music of Horace
Horace, the Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets edited by J.D. McClatchy
February 12, 2004: Winged Messages
Angels in America directed by Mike Nichols, screenplay by Tony Kushner, based on his play.
January 15, 2004: David Oppenheim's Case (letter)
December 18, 2003: It's Only a Movie
Kill Bill—Volume 1 a film directed by Quentin Tarantino
November 20, 2003: The Fate of a Humanist
Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna by Peter Singer
August 14, 2003: In Search of Sappho
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated from the Greek by Anne Carson
July 3, 2003: After the Fall
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
March 13, 2003: Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Hours a film directed by Stephen Daldry, based on the novel by Michael Cunningham, with a screenplay by David Hare
February 13, 2003: The Bad Boy of Athens
Medea by Euripides, directed by Deborah Warner
The Children of Herakles by Euripides, directed by Peter Sellars
January 16, 2003: Novel of the Year
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
November 7, 2002: Mighty Hermaphrodite
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
October 10, 2002: The Two Oscar Wildes
The Importance of Being Earnest a film written and directed by Oliver Parker, based on the play by Oscar Wilde
June 27, 2002: Bitter-Sweet
Private Lives a play by Noël Coward, directed by Howard Davies
Long Island Sound a play by Noël Coward, directed by Scott Alan Evans
April 11, 2002: The Greek Way
Big Love by Charles L. Mee
March 28, 2002: When Not in Greece
Iphigeneia at Aulis by Euripides, directed by Shepard Sobel
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, directed and designed by Tadashi Suzuki
October 4, 2001: Harold Pinter's Celebration
Harold Pinter Festival presented by the Lincoln Center Festival 2001
The Spaces Between the Words: A Tribute to Harold Pinter presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
Landscape by Harold Pinter
The Room by Harold Pinter
Monologue by Harold Pinter
One for the Road by Harold Pinter
Ashes to Ashes by Harold Pinter
Celebration by Harold Pinter
Mountain Language by Harold Pinter
A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter
September 20, 2001: Boy Wonder
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
June 21, 2001: Double Take
The Producers book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman
March 29, 2001: Breaking Out
The Throne of Labdacus Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Supernatural Love: Poems 1976–1992 Gjertrud Schnackenberg
January 11, 2001: Tragedy in Denver
Tantalus
Tantalus: Ten New Plays on Greek Myths by John Barton
November 2, 2000: Fun with Freud
Freud's Megalomania by Israel Rosenfield
October 19, 2000: On 'The Invention of Love': Another Exchange
September 21, 2000: 'The Invention of Love': An Exchange
August 10, 2000: The Tale of Two Housmans
The Invention of Love a play by Tom Stoppard, directed by Blanka Ziska. February 9-April 2, 2000, at the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia.
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
April 27, 2000: Not an Ideal Husband
Euripides' Alcestis translated and adapted by Ted Hughes
Books by Daniel Mendelsohn
Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays (2003)
The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity (1999)