ECSTASY AND TERROR

This collection of essays exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made Daniel Mendelsohn required reading for anyone i nterested in dissecting culture (The Daily Beast). Here Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in surprising and illuminating ways. Many of these essays examine how we continue to look to the Greeks and Romans as models: some argue for the surprising modernity of canonical ...[Read more]