Waiting For The Barbarians Essays From The Classics To Pop Culture.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARD 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...