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Daniel Mendelsohn is Editor-at-Large at The New York Review and Professor of Humanities at Bard. His new collection of essays, Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones, will be published in October. (April 2019)
Ingmar Bergman, Novelist
As he entered old age and grew increasingly exasperated with filmmaking, the director turned to fiction.
The Best Intentions
by Ingmar Bergman, translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate
Sunday’s Children
by Ingmar Bergman, translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate
Private Confessions
by Ingmar Bergman, translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate
April 18, 2019 issue
A Striptease Among Pals
Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘A Little Life’
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
December 3, 2015 issue
Charming, Superior Robots
We have been dreaming of robots since Homer
Her
a film directed by Spike Jonze
Ex Machina
a film directed by Alex Garland
June 4, 2015 issue
John Williams’s ‘Augustus’
The ‘Stoner’ author’s novel about the first emperor of Rome
August 14, 2014 issue
The Genius of Patrick Leigh Fermor
On ‘The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos’
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
by Patrick Leigh Fermor, edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper
June 19, 2014 issue
The Women and the Thrones
Game of Thrones
a television series created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, based on A Song of Ice and Fire and George R.R. Martin
Dreamsongs, Volume 1
by George R.R. Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire
a fantasy series by George R.R. Martin:
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with Dragons
November 7, 2013 issue
Herakles: Punished Again!
Herakles
by Euripides, translated from the Greek and adapted by Peter Meineck, directed by Desiree Sanchez
May 23, 2013 issue
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