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Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
By Mendelsohn, Daniel
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- 978-1-59017-760-8
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- NYRB
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Reviewed on September 1, 2012 | Essay Collections
This collection of 24 essays originally published separately between 1999 and 2011 links classic writings to examples of contemporary popular culture like the Spider-Man musical, the TV series Mad Men, and Wikipedia, which Mendelsohn (contributing editor, Travel & Leisure; The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million) compares to the Iliad: “it is the thing as a whole that matters, not only the kernel of text someone first put up.” In “...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
