Tag: Lolita

Lacy Warner examines the downward turn of actress Dominique Swain’s career, and how the trouble began the moment she grew up.

While the Sally Horner case gave ‘Lolita’ its main character, the Edward Grammer case gave the book an almost perfect murder.

“It isn’t a fact universally acknowledged that a person who mistakes his opinions for facts may also mistake himself for God.”

Peter deemed my proposed plan — driving 12 hours back east to Maine to glimpse my dreamed-of American landscape — completely unrealistic, and rightly so, as I realized with a sudden sense of shame. At the same time, I had the feeling that he really wanted me to see Detroit. And why not? It was […]