Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages at Northwestern University. He has written or edited 21 books on Russian literature, the nature of time, the role of quotations in culture, the aphorism as a literary genre and other topics. His most recent book is Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter (Harvard University Press, 2023).
