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Lolita

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Lasting Effects of the Lolita Complex

by Sari Botton November 16, 2018October 19, 2022

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

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

The Lasting Effects of the Lolita Complex

by Lacy Warner November 16, 2018October 19, 2022

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

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

The Lasting Effects of the Lolita Complex

by Lacy Warner November 16, 2018October 19, 2022

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

Posted inArts & Culture, Story

Vladimir Nabokov’s Other Favorite Crime

by Sarah Weinman October 4, 2018October 19, 2022

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

Rebecca Solnit
Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Reading Lolita in Patriarchy: Rebecca Solnit on Being Mansplained About How She Must Have Misread Nabokov

by Sari Botton December 22, 2015October 19, 2022

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

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Can the Navel-Gazing Norwegian Novelist Tell Us Anything About America?

by A. N. Devers February 25, 2015October 19, 2022

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 […]

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