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Nabokov’s novel Lolita serves as a necessary, albeit controversial, classic
10 Sep 2025 22:58 GMT
… novels have generated as much debate as Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. First published … in 1955, the book was … struggled with whether the book is art, exploitation, … Calls to remove the book from shelves ignore this …
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National Book Foundation Announces Longlist for Translated Literature Award By Raven Brunner
09 Sep 2025 19:47 GMT
… We Computers: A Ghazal Novel, translated from Uzbek by …
We Computers: A Ghazal Novel, meanwhile, "raises questions … interpretations of works by Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, Toni … made the longlist.
Publishers submitted 139 books for the 2025 …
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10 popular books banned by the US government
09 Sep 2025 14:18 GMT
First published in 1955, Lolita, written by Vladimir Nabokov, didn't get an … American publisher. A disturbing …
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Bestselling Author James Patterson Awards $500,000 in Grants To Emerging Writers
05 Sep 2025 19:16 GMT
… —every word I have ever published,” Vladimir Nabokov wrote in his 1966 memoir … literary community. After all, the novelist has given over $200 million … Finish Your Book” initiative, visit James Patterson’s website.
Bestselling author James …
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Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books
28 Aug 2025 08:29 GMT
… Dwight Garner, and which includes books published after Kerouac’s On the … by Patricia Highsmith • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov • A Good Man is Hard … talk about Jesmyn Ward’s novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, which Jennifer …
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Vladimir Nabokov: teasing trickster
12 Aug 2025 01:18 GMT
… Transparent Things. The septuagenarian author was heading apace into his … greatest novels of the century, this was a previously mute Vladimir Nabokov … something, like a self-help booklet. Don’t believe them, … , does it. Son.”
The book suggests to me, upon my …
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We can’t publish this!
26 Aug 2025 02:10 GMT
… . Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) was paedophilic and pornographic.
The Sicilian novelist Elio … Nouvelle Revue Française, which mainly published books by their own contributors and … . Painter wittily comments, “The words ‘author’s expense’, which had so …
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Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read
23 Aug 2025 08:06 GMT
… of visiting Cuban-American author Jennine Capó Crucet’s … controversial for a book that was published 55 years ago, … Vladimir Nabokov
The novel that made Nabokov’s fortune was first published … 1960 did a mainstream publisher, Penguin Books, attempt to bring …
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Lolita at 70: Rereading Nabokov’s scandalous novel in era of #MeToo and Epstein
18 Aug 2025 13:46 GMT
… Lolita is a fine book, a distinguished book—alright then—a … Minton, the publisher who, in 1958, brought Vladimir Nabokov’s scandalous novel to the … .com)
Mary Gaitskill, the author of Bad Behavior and Veronica … the book’s ban argue that Nabokov’s novel is …
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Vladimir Nabokov’s entire backlist is getting a brand new redesign.
18 Jul 2025 19:19 GMT
… a few great covers for Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. There have also … reissuing all of Nabokov’s books, complete with new covers … the archives to find the author’s own correspondence around … now available wherever you buy books:
Vintage Books; cover design by Na …