‘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.
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.
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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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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