The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Audio By Carbonatix A phrase from Mario Vargas Llosa comes to mind: “those of us who did not attend his classes and yet ...

When Mark Van Doren delivered his first lecture at Harvard last February a capacity crowd jammed the hall. They filled every seat, every inch of floor space, window ledge and platform until the man at ...

Above the columns of Butler Library at Columbia, inscribed in the stone frieze, you read permanent testimony that some writers are especially important: Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, ...

The English Department awards the Van Doren, Ledbetter, Koa-Plumeria, and Sigmar Schwarz prizes annually. All undergraduate CLU students are eligible for consideration for all prizes. Mark Van Doren ...