How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken

<p>Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition disarming emotionality and tart wit. Now <em>How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken</em> demonstrates why he is considered one of our greatest critics. Writing with a lively intelligence and arresting originality he brings his distinctive combination of scholarly rigor and conversational ease to bear across eras cultures and genres from Roman games to video games.</p>