Vladimir Nabokov, Author, Robert M. Pyle, Editor, Brian Boyd, Editor Beacon Press (MA) $45 (800p) ISBN 978-0-8070-8540-0 Admirers of the great novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) know that ...

No one inspires the devotion of writers quite like Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. Here's Jake Arnott, the author of The Long Firm (Favourite Nabokov: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight): "He has ...

Boyd, editor of Letters to Véra, chronicling the decades-long love story between Vladimir and Véra, picks the 10 best Nabokov books. Martin Amis is not alone in rating Nabokov the greatest ...

Vladimir Nabokov might be best known as a novelist, specifically as the author of Lolita, but what many might not know is that one of his deepest passions was studying butterflies. Now ...

Robert Roper isn't a specialist in the study of Vladimir Nabokov or his fiction. In fact, he is himself principally a novelist, though one who has also published a study of Walt Whitman and a ...

A collection of Vladimir Nabokov's Selected Poems is being published this month. Brian Boyd, the author of the new book Why Lyrics Last, is best known as the world’s foremost expert on the great ...

When a critic said that the book could be read as a record of the author’s love affair with the romantic novel. Nabokov countered, perhaps indicating the real love motivating his text ...

How unfair it is, then, that Vladimir Nabokov can show up ... “Insomniac Dreams,” a recently published chronicle of the author’s oneiric experiments, edited by Gennady Barabtarlo, a ...

1 1 1 pages. Phaedra. $4.95. “Life,” says one of Vladimir Nabokov’s characters, “makes a constant attempt to prove it is real.” Russian-born Author Nabokov prefers to believe it is not.

These are some of the myriad questions evoked by Sarah Weinman’s riveting account of the 1940s true crime that in part inspired Vladimir Nabokov ... despite what the author maintained.

In an afterword for his classic novel Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov took to task those who ... despite John Ray’s [the faux author of the novel’s Foreword] assertion, Lolita has no moral in tow.

Editor’s Note: VLADIMIR NABOKOV is a Russian writer, author of several novels, one of which, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, was written by him directly in English and published in this ...