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Leland de la Durantaye

Leland de la Durantaye, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English at Harvard University, is author of Style Is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov.

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Philosophy & Religion

To Be and to Do

Philosopher Giorgio Agamben grapples with a humanity that has no work it must do.

Leland de la Durantaye

Arts in Society

Style Over Substance

William Carter revisits the original C.K. Scott Moncrieff translation to celebrate the centennial of Swann's Way. Why turn back the clock?

Leland de la Durantaye

Arts in Society

Do The Right Thing

Italo Calvino's Letters 1941–1985.

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Arts in Society

Where Love Grows

The Marriage Plot, Eugenides’s new novel, is about becoming an adult, about moving, marrying, and making mistakes.

Leland de la Durantaye

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

How to be Happy

The Ethics of David Foster Wallace.

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Arts in Society

Last Wishes

Nabokov's Novel in Fragments.

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