Daniel Mendelsohn

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, France's best foreign book of the year. ‘Astounding’ — Sebastian Barry ‘A masterpiece’ — Ayad Akhtar ‘This little book is ruminative, humane, and gorgeously precise’ — Jonathan Lethem In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and...

‘Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace… He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.’ Sebastian Barry Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn’s essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as ‘our most irresistible literary critic’ (New...

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, France's best foreign book of the year. In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of...