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Vladimir Nabokov

The Police - Sting - Stewart Copeland - Andy Summers - 1980s

The Police song that typifies Sting’s “work backward” method

“Rock music is a sort of wonderful mongrel.”

Andrew Clayman
Dec 31, 2025
Stanley Kubrick - Director - 1960s

The controversial movie Stanley Kubrick regretted not making more erotic

Understandable.

Thomas Coll
Oct 19, 2025
Vladimir Nabokov - Author

“An impossible scene in the real past”: Vladimir Nabokov’s enlightening dream diary

Who says recounting a dream has to be dull?

Andrew Clayman
Sep 29, 2025
Lolita - Stanley Kubrick - 1962

‘Lolita’: what is the real meaning behind Vladimir Nabokov and Stanley Kubrick’s controversial tale?

Sympathy for the devil.

Lucy Harbron
May 23, 2024
Sofia Coppola - Director - 2017

Sofia Coppola explains her love for Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Lolita’

A controversial classic.

Aimee Ferrier
Apr 20, 2024
Eugene Izzi- the noir novelist who wrote his own murder into reality

Eugene Izzi: the noir novelist who wrote his own murder into reality

Was it suicide or murder?

Jordan Potter
Apr 11, 2024
Lolita - Stanley Kubrick - 1962

Captive in broad daylight: the sickening true crime that inspired Vladimir Nabokov to write ‘Lolita’

The novelist was inspired by a horrifying mid-century crime.

Jordan Potter
Mar 21, 2024
Pheobe Waller Bridge - Fleabag

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s favourite books of all time

From ‘The Master and Margarita’ to ‘Lolita’.

Aimee Ferrier
Oct 21, 2023
Vladimir Nabokov - Author

Exploring the complex legacy of Vladimir Nabokov’s classic novel, ‘Lolita’

A complicated legacy.

Aimee Ferrier
Aug 13, 2023
Lana Del Rey - The Grants - Press

Listen to Lana Del Rey’s stunning isolated vocals on ‘Lolita’

One of many references she has made to Nabokov’s novel.

Aimee Ferrier
May 18, 2023
Donald Fagen of Steely Dan live in Los Angeles July 1974

The authors that inspired Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen

Literary.

Thomas Coll
Nov 26, 2022
Lana Del Rey covers The Neighbourhood song 'Daddy Issues'

The Lana Del Rey song inspired by Vladimir Nabokov

Lana frequently references Vladimir Nabokov in her work.

Aimee Ferrier
Oct 14, 2022

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