Mendelsohn is a national treasure and easily one of the finest living Anglophone essayists. I remember little from the coverage of the manhunt for Tamerlan Tsar

Mendelsohn is a national treasure and easily one of the finest living Anglophone essayists. I remember little from the coverage of the manhunt for Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother but I vividly remember the powerful piece Mendelsohn wrote about its outcome: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/unburied-tamerlan-tsarnaev-and-the-lessons-of-greek-tragedy https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/unburied-tamerla...