Daniel Mendel­sohn is a fre­quent con­trib­u­tor to the New York­er and the New York Review of Books, where he is Edi­tor-at-Large. His books include the mem­oirs An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Mil­lion as well as three col­lec­tions of essays and crit­i­cism, most recent­ly Ecsta­sy and Ter­ror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones. He teach­es lit­er­a­ture at Bard College.