Daniel Mendelsohn is a critic and translator whose essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in many publications both in the US and abroad, most frequently in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He has been the weekly book critic for New York magazine and a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, and is presently a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure.

His book The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, published by Harper Collins in 2006, won the National Books Critics Circle Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Other books include a memoir, The Elusive Embrace (1999); two collections of his essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken (2008); Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays From the Classics to Pop Culture (2012); and an acclaimed two-volume translation of the poetry of C. P. Cavafy (2009).

Moderated by Christopher Beha.

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