‘Nabokov in America’
By ROBERT ROPER
Reviewed by DAPHNE MERKIN
Roper’s book argues that Nabokov’s American period, from 1940 to 1960, was beneficial to the author in every way.
Otto Frank, in 1971, holding an award given for the sale of one million copies of “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
Her father brought her diary to the world. Now, with the copyright expiring in Europe, a Swiss foundation is arguing that his role was larger.
Nabokov’s letters to Véra suggest a sky-filling adoration and a helpless dependency.
Roper’s book argues that Nabokov’s American period, from 1940 to 1960, was beneficial to the author in every way.
The author, most recently, of “Deep South” says if someone must write his biography, “I would suggest Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen, a.k.a. Baron Munchhausen.”
In the wake of World War I, survivors explore new ways to connect to lost loved ones.
Jon Meacham recounts and celebrates the life of George H. W. Bush.
Reich argues that capitalism should create broad prosperity, not just vast gains for the wealthy.
Rabin was assassinated 20 years ago at a crucial point in the peace process.
Gloria Steinem reviews her peripatetic years as an activist and journalist.
A panoramic look at the experience of Germans from all walks of life during World War II.
Every nine years, shape-shifting twins extend their immortality by luring victims to their haunted home.
A young boy lands in the service of Pizarro in this novel of conquest, culture clash and shifting identity.
The many lives of a cross-dressing, swashbuckling opera star.
A novel interweaves two Antarctic expeditions, a century apart.
Tallent’s stories show how easily love can alter.
In Cornwell’s latest novel, the medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is worried about threats to her brilliant, prickly niece.
Ms. Schiff goes back to the original story of Salem, Massachusetts, offering a minutely detailed chronicle of nine harrowing months in 1692.
The actress presents aspects of herself in an epistolary book that is not a memoir but candidly speaks volumes about its author.
In her first book in more than 20 years, Ms. Steinem looks back at nearly five decades as itinerant feminist organizer and standard-bearer.
Two fiction writers known for their mind-bending imaginations discuss the business of envisioning the future.
They are more than just macabre litanies of accidents, murders and mishaps in America’s most treasured national parks.
A stylish new picture book shows boys that it’s OK to express their softer feelings.
When Pamela Des Barres and other backstage women came to prominence in 1969, the news media focused on their brazen sexuality. Now the focus is on their fashion.
In Mr. Moody’s latest novel, a hotel critic covers a lot more ground than just accommodations.
Ms. Rothschild, a member of the venerable banking family and chairwoman of the National Gallery, discusses the beginnings of her first novel.
The author recasts familiar fairy-tale outcomes from the perspective of a louche cynic.
Young, digitally astute poets with loyal online followings have catapulted onto the best-seller lists, where poetry books are scarce.
Dana Stevens and Benjamin Moser discuss how we view authors who die before their time.
Reviewers have recommended several books for their tone in covering the state of Israel.
New books by Barry Yourgrau, Aspen Matis, Caroline Heller, Alison Pick and Juliet Jacques.
Readers respond to a recent interview with Matt Ridley, a review of Anthony Marra’s “The Tsar of Love and Techno” and more.
Donald Trump and Ben Carson are duking it out in the Republican debates — and on the hardcover nonfiction best-seller list.
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Thomas Vinciguerra explores the wit of Wolcott Gibbs along with other eccentric writers of The New Yorker, and Michael Vecchione vividly recalls a case of corrupt cops.
Dr. Seuss still gets a lot of attention but what other young children's books and authors deserve attention?
Jon Meacham discusses his biography of the 41st president, and Dan Ephron talks about “Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel.”
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