Vlad the Impaler
Inga Clendinnen: Hairy Humbert, 10 August 2000
Nabokov’s Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings
edited by Brian Boyd and Michael Pyle.
Allen Lane, 783 pp., £25, March 2000,0 7139 9380 4 Show More
edited by Brian Boyd and Michael Pyle.
Allen Lane, 783 pp., £25, March 2000,
Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius
by Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates.
Zoland, 372 pp., £18, October 1999,1 58195 009 8 Show More
by Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates.
Zoland, 372 pp., £18, October 1999,
“... Nabokov’s innovative reclassification of Latin American ‘blues’, and the journalist Steve Coates. They persuade us of many things: for example, that, at least in lepidoptery, scientific progress is less a smooth forward movement on oiled wheels than a disorderly sack race. They educate us in the theoretical implications of biogeographics ... ”