In his novels, poems and stories, Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla excelled at portraits of simple but emotionally complex ...

Like The New Yorker, I was born in 1925. Somewhat to my surprise, I decided to keep a journal of my hundredth year.

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 ...

In his autobiography, Conclusive Evidence, Vladimir Nabokov devotes a few pages to discussing the emigre Russian writers whom he knew in Berlin and Paris before 1939: Bunin, Poplavski, Rodasevich, ...

4. Fighting for Humanity in the Age of the Machine. 25 November 2025 58 minutes Available for over a year Rutger Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution", explore the moral decay and ...

Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures will reflect on moments in history, including the likes of the suffragette and abolitionist movements, which have sparked transformative moral revolutions, offering hope ...

Most people who know Vladimir Nabokov’s name only know it because he wrote Lolita. And most people who’ve heard of Lolita have only heard of it because it’s about paedophilia. Even in his own day, ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (U-WIRE) — He led the world to fall in love with the story of a pedophile. Imagine Vladimir Nabokov being criticized for not having a sense of humor. A self-described social cripple and ...

This year’s biennial features almost 100 artists and “figures of interest” in a city-wide exploration of the tales we all tell and how they form us and our cultures.

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's serio-comic portrait of small-town America, is published in 1955 in France by the Olympia Press. It has been rejected by four American publishers who are terrified of its ...

Academics, writers and policy experts explore the theme Australia: A Radical Experiment in Democracy, examining the strengths and challenges of our democracy as we navigate unprecedented global ...

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