A literary ethical dilemma involving the unpublished writings of Vladimir Nabokov is discussed at length by journalist Ron Rosenbaum over at Slate. It seems that Nabokov’s sole remaining unpublished work – a manuscript titled The Original of Laura – is mouldering away somewhere in a Swiss bank vault, unread.
But Nabokov’s sole surviving heir – his 73-year-old son Dmitri – is torn about what he should do with it. Should he destroy it, as his father specifically requested, or ignore those wishes and unveil it to the world?

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So, to burn or not to burn? What say you, gentle readers?