Vladimir Nabokov, literary critic
“Mummy selected at random”: The New Republic posts reviews Nabokov contributed to the magazine in the early 1940s.
“Mummy selected at random”: The New Republic posts reviews Nabokov contributed to the magazine in the early 1940s.
The earliest known dust jacket (circa 1830) wrapped the book like a parcel and is a pretty homely specimen.
Bookmarked for myself and @hitsong: new Chris Adrian story, A Tiny Feast, at The New Yorker.
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“Not a woman I liked, on the whole.” Hilary Mantel reviews Miri Rubin’s Mother of God, and contemplates the Virgin Mary.