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Jeanette McCurdy’s new book cover wants to make you squirm
21 Jan 2026 13:37 GMT
… Subtle yet provocative, the novel';s controversial cover … image given the novel';s theme. With … with many drawing connections to Vladimir Nabokov's infamous Lolita. … added. "Publishers often use provocative imagery to sell books, but this …
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Book-to-film adaptations and their struggle with narrative nuance
18 Jan 2026 20:04 GMT
… books discussed in the article. The author reflects on their thoughts on book … adaptation: “Lolita” (1997), based on Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” (1955).
She described … wrote, “Kubrick transforms a horror novel into something far more unsettling …
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The Salt Path and nine other books that should never have been published
16 Jan 2026 08:25 GMT
… wants to ban books or deny an author’s freedom to … the book appeared in 2007. Murky.
The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov … was subsequently labelled by the author herself as “creative death”. … did not want his unfinished novella published as he had quit …
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Banned Book Club, slideshow at library
15 Jan 2026 00:45 GMT
… areas of the library.
Banned Book Club, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2 … 3 p.m.
The monthly book club discusses titles that have … ’s selection is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Future books include The 1619 Project …
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The man behind the man behind the man who wrote Lolita
25 Jan 2026 17:28 GMT
… long-standing love affair with Vladimir Nabokov’s œuvre. A bird … Dr Boyd wrote the author’s definitive two-part biography … his death, published posthumously in 1986 as a novella.
Lolita, meanwhile … His parents purchased “a bookstore with a lending library” …
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In conversation with author Neige Sinno
09 Jan 2026 01:31 GMT
… irony and paradox in the book.
Lots of people have … on sexual abuse: masterpieces by Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, … even imagine my life without books. But literature for me … Chennai. Click here to register.
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Listicle: 10 books that are 100 years old but are still full of fire today
02 Jan 2026 01:58 GMT
… man who wrote Devdas also published a novel so anti-revolutionary, it … Chattopadhyay as the author of Devdas. But this book has more fire … yours. Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov’s novel is not as disturbing as …
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What Was Jeffrey Epstein Reading? Shocking Books on Trump, Tantric Sex, and Immortality Revealed In Kindle List
31 Dec 2025 10:15 GMT
… from a Bloomberg investigation published in November 2025, which … receipts show Epstein ordering books on advanced mathematics and … more eclectic. Epstein purchased books on espionage, fitness, … ;s repeated purchases of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
Records …
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7 podcasts for bookworms
27 Dec 2025 14:41 GMT
… author of “The Year of Reading Dangerously,” and John Mitchinson, a publisher … Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel “Lolita,” she explores the troubling gap between the author … reviewing movie adaptations of classic books.
Starter episode: “Reader Roulette + Our …
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Forget Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov’s real masterpiece has been overlooked
28 Nov 2025 18:48 GMT
Most people who know Vladimir Nabokov’s name only know … funny, moving and beautiful book about a diabolically ugly theme … , he wrote his earliest novels in Russian. After Hitler … then became an American novelist, writing novels in English about American …