Vladimir Nabokov

Pithy posters for writers

2012-07-11 16:35:42

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LéaLA celebrates Spanish-language books this weekend

2012-05-12 16:34:42

<![CDATA[LéaLA celebrates Spanish-language books this weekend]]>

New York Public Library gives up some of its secrets

2011-09-04 00:00:00

In my family, we've never recognized a distinction between happiness and the handling of books. Books in libraries, books in shops. Books that take you places, and books you can steal from — like Norman Maclean's memoir, "A River Runs Through It,"...

Dmitri Nabokov dies at 77; only child of acclaimed novelist Vladimir Nabokov

2012-02-26 00:00:00

Dmitri Nabokov, the only child of acclaimed novelist Vladimir Nabokov who helped protect and translate his father's work while pursuing careers as an opera singer and race car driver, has died. He was 77. The younger Nabokov died Wednesday at a...

Book news: Salman Rushdie, John Steinbeck, fact, fiction, more

2012-02-29 16:36:49

Artist Steve Roden blends old photos, recordings on new CD

2011-07-31 00:00:00

The genesis of "... i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces," a new book of vintage photographs with musical accompaniment, came simply, during one of artist Steve Roden's regular visits to the flea market. "This is how it always happens —...

Book review: 'The Tragedy of Arthur' by Arthur Phillips

2011-05-01 00:00:00

The Tragedy of Arthur A Novel Arthur Phillips Random House: 368 pp., $26 First, the MacGuffin: Arthur Phillips' fifth novel, "The Tragedy of Arthur," is built around a full-length, five-act Shakespeare play, "The Most Excellent and Tragical Historie...

Discoveries

2011-03-20 00:00:00

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Harper: 288 pp., $24.99 Kamela Sediqi was not yet 20 when the Taliban took over in Kabul, Afghanistan, in...

Hans Keilson dies at 101; author fled Nazis, recently drew great acclaim

2011-06-04 21:23:00

Hans Keilson was a newly minted physician in the mid-1930s when the persecution began. As a Jew in Hitler's Germany, he was stripped of the right to practice medicine. A writer, he soon lost that identity too: His autobiographical first novel was pulped...

Wylie-Amazon e-books partnership gives in to Random House

2010-08-25 16:34:31

Natalie Portman's 'Lolita' clutch

2010-12-04 16:34:08

Book-purse recommendations for the Golden Globes

2011-01-16 16:33:24

Even at 14, Lyon was too old to play the nymphet in Stanley Kubricks adaptation of Vladimir Nabokovs provocative novel.

2012-03-24 12:56:58

to play what could have been a subordinate role -- not Humbert Humbert, the French-lit professor obsessed by the title nymphet (Sue Lyon), but Quilty, the television playwright and minor celebrity who lures her away.

2010-04-19 14:38:44

Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov's novel popularized the term "nymphet" and brought to the fore Western -- and specifically American -- society's troubled view of the teen-girl.

2008-05-07 12:02:24