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 ...

Color Plate 43, Nabokov’s rendering of Japanese Blues, with rendering (at upper right) of cleobis Bremer 1861, for comparative purposes (© Vladimir Nabokov, courtesy of the Vladimir Nabokov Archive at ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nabokov wrote another masterpiece, too – the perennially underrated Pale Fire. There’s no darkness to worry about in Pale Fire. It’s ...

If you’re looking for an escape from reality these days, I have some good news: John Banville has a new book out. The Drowning is one of Banville’s whodunnit crime novels (a series begun under the ...