 His dissertation, later published as a scholarly monograph by Oxford University Press, was on Euripidean tragedy.While still a graduate student, Mendelsohn began contributing reviews, op-eds, and essays to such publications as QW, Out, "The New York Times", "The Nation", and "The Village Voice"; after completing his Ph.D., he moved to New York City and began writing full-time.Since then his review-essays on books, films, theater and television have appeared frequently in numerous major publications, most often in "The New Yorker" and "The New York Review of Books".