In 1925 in Berlin, Vladimir Nabokov participated in a literary evening for Russian émigrés living in the German capital; the topic of his talk was a recent boxing match he attended at the Berlin ...

But like Mary McCarthy's splendid review of Pale Fire, this kind of fanfare is too recent to account for his reputation, which has grown quietly for a decade among a new generation of serious readers ...

Vladimir Nabokov once said, “A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.” The famed author exhibited both equally in his writing and in his non-literary pursuits, ...

You don't know Vladimir. That's the central idea behind The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov by journalist Andrea Pitzer. Gone is the apolitical, chilly aesthete of Lolita, Pale Fire and other ...

A detailed wing schematic. Vladimir Nabokov. Courtesy of the Vladimir Nabokov Archive at the Berg Collection, New York Public Library, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC. Detailed renderings ...

Vladimir Nabokov first appeared to me as a stranger’s name on a Cornellt-shirt. A quick search online showed me that he’s a big deal—big enough to be printed on the same shirt as Ginsburg, Sagan and ...

On anyone’s list of the 20th century’s greatest writers never to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov will likely appear at, or very near, the top. Of course, one can ...

Before she could publish The Enchanter, her book about novelist Vladimir Nabokov, Lila Azam Zanganeh needed the permission of the author’s son, Dmitri, who died last week at the age of 77. Here she ...

Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian American author of such novels as “Lolita,” “Pnin,” and “Pale Fire,” was a compassionate observer of modern Jewish history. This has been established in such works as ...

FILE - In this May 20, 1999 file photo, Dmitri Nabokov poses with a photo of his father American-Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov at his home in Montreux, Switzerland. Nabokov, the translator, editor ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Lolita was first published in 1955, an American critic suggested that it constituted a record of the author’s ...