General Discussion

Not feeling disgusted enough? Try this missive from Summers’s wife, Harvard poetry professor Elisa New, emailing Epstein in 2018:

Dear Jeffrey … I’m going upstairs to hunt for my copy of Lolita, or will get on my kindle and reread on our way to Australia. I may have lent it to one of my kids. I would recommend reading My Antonia by Cather next time you’re on a long plane trip. The prose is gorgeous, and the book has—come to think of it—similar themes to Lolita in that it’s about a man whose whole life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl.