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Vladimir Nabokov

We all aspire to be remarkable at what we do.

The Self-Described Daily Routines of History’s Most Prolific Minds

Here are the daily routines of Nikola Tesla, Mozart, Hemingway, Woody Allen, Maya Angelo, van Gogh, Stephen King, and Nabokov.
By Thomas Oppong
Andrew Solomon, Gérard Biard, Suzanne Nossel, and Jean-Baptiste Thoret.

Food Fight at the PEN Gala: I’m With Charlie

In a heroic show of defiance, several writers decline to appear in a room with editors of Charlie Hebdo because the satirical magazine made jokes about those who must not be joked about.
By Jesse Kornbluth

What Can You Tell From a Fancy Prose Style?

Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita, but he was no mere writer. The famous novelist was also a distinguished lepidopterist, husband, pedant
By James Camp

If You Want to Read Nabokov’s Laura Early, You’ll Have to Make a House Call to Knopf

By Leon Neyfakh

Holy Lolita! Hefner Hoovers Up First Serial Rights to Nabokov’s Last Novella

By Leon Neyfakh

Department of Old But Unreported News: Knopf to Publish Nabokov’s Unfinished Novel The Original of Laura

By Leon Neyfakh

The New School is Having a Lolita Party!

By Gillian Reagan

Week of the Jackal: Andrew Wylie Devours 3 Giants, One Living

By Leon Neyfakh

Wylie Agency Adds Nabokov Estate To Its Client List

By Leon Neyfakh

Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Kafka, Flaubert and Nabokov Come Out to Play

By Adam Begley

Who Will Publish Nabokov's The Original of Laura? Other Unpublished Materials TK

By Leon Neyfakh

Lila, Intellectualite: Peripatetic Nabokovian

By Sheelah Kolhatkar

Happy Birthday, Dolores Haze! Still a Nymphet, 50 Years Later

By David Thomson

New Lolita Scandal! Did Nabokov Suffer From Cryptomnesia?

By Ron Rosenbaum
No install shots: go see the show.

Lewis Carroll’s Girls Play Dusty Charade In His Looking Glass

By Hilton Kramer

Three Men and a Babe Meet at McCool’s

By Andrew Sarris
Mr. Chatham. (Courtesy Rhyschatham.net)

Shrimp Soup With Chocolate: Nabokovian Complexity at Atlas

By Moira Hodgson

The Novel of the Century: Nabokov’s Pale Fire

By Ron Rosenbaum

Lolita’s Newest Creator Tries To Pluck Her From the Porn Heap

By Elizabeth Manus

A French Marquis’ Adventures: Dandy Stuff for Biography

By Benjamin Anastas

Nabokov’s Pale Ghost: A Scholar Retracts

By Ron Rosenbaum

New Lolita Better Than Kubrick’s But Nabokov Just Gets Nastier

By Andrew Sarris

The Bard’s ‘Apprentice Work’: The Drop and the Ocean

By Ron Rosenbaum

Erica Jong Screens Lolita With Adrian Lyne

By NYO Staff
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