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...girl-children [are] nymphets," wrote Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita. Few indeed have the "fey grace... the slenderness of a downy limb" and other nascent charms so dear to a Humbert Humbert. Edward Albee, who is staging a drama based on the novel, chose Blanche Baker over hundreds of preteens to play eleven-year-old Lo to Donald Sutherland's fortyish Humbert. Blanche is 24, but well qualified. She was virtually born for the role: her mother, Carroll Baker, won stardom 24 years ago as the sensuous heroine of Baby Doll. As for Blanche's advanced age, she says...
...typical of Toomey that he explains more than he describes. He can be an amusing and sympathetic guide in this packaged tour de force, but readers who want true literary adventure should turn back to that great confabulator, Charles Kinbote, the deranged scholar-poet of Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire...
During all the years of his exile after the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Nabokov obsessively sought to recapture "a Russian something that I could inhale/ but could not see." There are glimpses of that Russian something in Photographs for the Tsar (Dial; 214 pages; $35), the best of the color shots that the chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii began taking in 1909 at the behest of Tsar Nicholas II. Having fascinated the Romanovs with a color slide show at the court at Tsarskoe Selo, Prokudin-Gorskii gained an imperial commission to record the art and people of the Russian...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers
NONFICTION: American Dreams: Lost and Found, Studs Terkel Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers