On the Bookshelf

New books on bodies visible and invisible

Sundown: Taking the Sting Out

Imagining Mamet, roaming charges, and the band that played on

Rooted Cosmopolitanism

How Daniel Mendelsohn’s translations from the Greek illuminate his Jewishness

Family History

In The Lost, Daniel Mendelsohn excavates some unsettling truths about brotherhood, betrayal, and the Book of Genesis.