Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

Daniel Mendelsohn

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 tw...