A contract with the The New Yorker saw Nabokov through his cash-strapped pre-“Lolita” years—and continued beyond them for ...

Nabokov’s controversial 1955 novel was repeatedly ... the picture as unfaithful to the original script as an American poet’s translation from Rimbaud or Pasternak.” Even so, he was quick ...

a chauffeur escorted him to school — whose hobbies included poetry and girls. At a young age he displayed a flair for impish gestures. In “Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years,” the scholar ...

His is both a fantastic vision of Nabokov's opulent past, entertained by a madman, and of a poet's irreparable loss ... When I recently visited Vladimir Nabokov for four days in Montreux ...

Vladimir Nabokov—Putnam ($5 ... sober meditation in rhymed couplets by the late and highly respected poet John Shade. Surrounding it is a dense, many-layered rind of preface, commentary ...

Paedophilia is not a subject that should be linked with poetry. It makes for uncomfortable ... and childlike enthusiasm for trivial things. Nabokov’s portrayal of her challenges our perceptions ...