Clever and dexterous, his writing delights in puzzles, puns and lepidoptera. Here’s where to start. (There’s so much more than “Lolita.”) By Molly Young “The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden ...

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 ...

Novelist Vladimir Nabokov is not only one of the midcentury masters of prose but also, arguably, our greatest literary cartographer. The author of such masterworks as “Lolita” and “Pale Fire” often ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered why some books spark more outrage than admiration at first, only to become timeless pieces later?

The Epstein files released by Congress yesterday include photos of a young woman or girl, with Lolita ’s horny opening lines ...

In this novel, first published in 1959, a man plumbs the life of the writer who was his half brother. (Feb.) A novella written in Russian when Nabokov lived in Paris in 1939, The Enchanter resurfaced ...

As a master of the eccentric metaphor, the great Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov used food to fine effect in his writing. There was, for instance, that one word he used to capture the ...

A close look at Lolita, its fraught cultural history, and the disturbing way the novel surfaced in Jeffrey Epstein’s world.

There’s a famous joke that academic fights are so vicious only because the stakes are so low. The Feud, Alex Beam’s smart, agile, good-natured account of one of America’s most famous literary brawls, ...