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Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture – $325
by rgonzalezr
Over 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 […]
Categories: Cultura, Ensayo • Tags: 2012, Criticism, Critics, Culture, Ensayo, essay, New York Review of, Review