Daniel Mendelsohn enjoys interpreting Homer’s Odyssey for modern readers. Drawn to the ancient tale since his teens, for six years he took on the challenge of translating and reanimating the book. His ...

A few years ago, scholar Daniel Mendelsohn's dad made an unusual request: He wanted to take his son's seminar on Homer's Odyssey. Mendelsohn looks... A Scholar And His Octogenarian Dad Take On Homer's ...

Critic and memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn undertook the Herculean task of translating and annotating all the poems written by the great Modern Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863—1933), including his last, ...

For a Jewish reporter with Eastern European roots, one of the hardest challenges covering the war is reconciling the horrors of the Holocaust with the Poland and Ukraine of today. By Jeffrey Gettleman ...