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Stephen Jan Parker's catalogue, annotated, of the Nabokovs' Montreux book collection. See central body of Home Page.

Nabokov admirer Edmund White, whose first novel Forgetting Elena Nabokov in turn admired, has died at 85.

A story in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof (May 21, 2025) notes the impact of political scientist Gene Sharp on helping destroy tyrants in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and across Asia. The first of the three means Sharp and Kristof suggests is humor, echoing Nabokov in Tyrants Destroyed. Nabokov uses this in Bend Sinister, too, and the other two main means: emphasising corruption and mismanagement, and focusing on the case of the individual rather than oppressed groups: in this case, Krug and David.

An Exhibition of Fine Bindings at the Nottingham Central Library

Announcing: International conference to be held at Princeton University, April 23–26, 2026. "Destabilizing Nabokov.”