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 didn’t like television. So how did Bernard Pivot get him to accept an invitation to be interviewed on France’s “prime-time literary talk show” Apostrophes? Whiskey and a promise to ...

Although Speak, Memory clearly illuminates the self-parodic content of Nabokov's fiction, no one has fully recognized the aesthetic implications of these transmutations, or the extent to which Nabokov ...