Bad Boy of Athens, The: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones

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From Prix Mediterranee-winning author Daniel Mendelsohn (shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Pen Art of the Essay Award) comes a collection of eclectic writing that interrogates contemporary life and pop culture with wisdom and humour`Our most irresistible literary critic' New York Times For over two decades, Daniel Mendelsohn, widely considered one of the greatest contemporary critics, has used his classical training to make sense of the modern world and the many ways in which the myths of yesterday enlighten the narratives of today.His incisive commentary and unique insights have spanned sexual identity as he explored Sappho's lesbianism, Oscar Wilde's campness and Cavafy's gayness; AI film romances (Ex Machina, Her); feminist worlds (Game of Thrones, The Hours, Volver); and confessional writing (Karl Ove Knausgaard, Susan Sontag, and his own correspondence with Mary Renault) among other topics.In The Bad Boy of Athens, Mendelsohn takes us to Broadway, the cinema, the bookshop and back to the Ancient Times. His wide-ranging judgements have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Writing with originality, he brings his distinctive combination of scholarly rigour and conversational ease to bear across eras, cultures, and genres, from the Greeks to Game of Thrones.