'As complete a Cavafy collection as we are ever likely to get. As a critic and an exegete of Cavafy, Mendelsohn ranks with the best. [He] will remain indispensable for his thorough critical annotations, and for his first-time translations of the 'unfinished' poems' New Republic 'Daniel Mendelsohn has translated all of Cavafy's poems, including the thirty 'unfinished' poems never before rendered in English. The results are extraordinary, and a whole galaxy orbits them' New Yorker 'Thrilling ... The explanatory essays [Mendelsohn] has attached to almost every poem can contain every bit as much passion and humanity as the poet's own work. Mendelsohn is such a felicitous interpreter of Cavafy because the poet himself was a kind of scholar' Harper's Magazine 'A tremendous gift to the literary world' Newsday 'This not only brings us closer to one of the great poets of the 20th century; it also reinvigorates our relationship to the English language ... It is an event on the page. Mendelsohn's Cavafy is itself a work of art' New York Times Book Review

Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews and essays on literary and cultural subjects appear regularly in numerous publications, including The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. His previous books include the memoir The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, and the international best seller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Prix Medicis, and many other honors. Mr. Mendelsohn is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He teaches at Bard College.