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How impressed I was by your superb piece on my father in Boston Review. Bravo!             

                                                             Dmitri Nabokov


             Essays, Reviews, Articles, and Opinions 

The New York Times Book Review

Maverick Jetpants. A review of Bill Peters' debut novel, Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality, 

from December 2012.

Assumption. A review of Percival Everett's new novel, Assumption, from December 2011.

Last Monarch Standing. A review of Ken Follett's new novel, Fall of Giants, from October 2010.

The Abyss of Human Illusion. A review of Gilbert Sorrentino's last novel, from February 2010.

The Scotsman

Fall of Giants. A review of Ken Follett's new novel, Fall of Giants, from October 2010. 

Boston Review

A March to the Grave. An essay on the life and work of Joseph Roth, from November/December 

2012.

Back in Time: Julian Barnes Remembers. An essay on the work of Julian Barnes, with a review of his

Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending, from March/April 2012.

Priest, Gangster, Drinker, Gent.  A report from Vienna on a literary conference held there in honor of

the 100th anniversary of Flann O'Brien's birth, from September/October 2011.

The Jewish Jane Austen. An essay on Howard Jacobson, with a review of his novels The Finkler

Question and Kalooki Nights, from May/June 2011.

Suppose You're an Idiot. An essay on Mark Twain, with a review of his autobiography, from

November/December 2010.

Man of Principle. An essay on Arthur Koestler, with a review of Michael Scammell's biography, from

May/June 2010.

Desperately Seeking Sam. A remembrance of Samuel Beckett, from November/December 2009.

Fateful Gates. An essay on the amazing life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, from March/April 2009.

Intimate Revenge. An essay on the perilous peace in Northern Ireland, from September/October 2008.

We Laughed, We Cried. An essay on the life and work of Flann O'Brien, from July/August 2008.

The Monarch of All. An essay on the fantasy world of John Cowper Powys, from March/April, 2008.

Nabokov's Gift. An essay on the happy genius of Vladimir Nabokov, from July/August 2007.

The Quiet Man. An essay on the life and work of John McGahern, from January/February 2007.

The Lost Ones. An essay on the existentialist fiction of John Banville, from February/March 2004.

The Economist

The Luck of the Irish. Flann O'Brien's melancholy life. From October 2011.

Mark Twain, Midwestern Cosmopolitan. The restless, romantic soul of Huck Finn's creator. From

February 2011.

Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov, and The Lunch That Wasn't. The near-miss of two Russian literary giants, one

day in Montreux, Switzerland. From January 2009.

Suite 101

Romulus Augustulus, Man of Mystery.  A speculative look at the last Emperor of Rome in the West.

All the World's A Novel. A review of Steven Moore's remarkable The Novel: An Alternate History.

King Bongo. A review of Thomas Sanchez's exciting 2003 thriller, set in Havana in 1957.

Context

Reading Aidan Higgins. An appreciation of the eccentric and brilliant Irish author, from 2007.

The Dabbler

Mark Twain Unexpurgated. Another look at Clemens's autobiography.

Autosavant

A Voyage Around My Car. A Jaguar of my own.  

Boylan's Dream Garage. The cars I'd own if I could.  

A Moment of Ostalgie. Automotive ghosts of East Germany.

Memory Lanes: The Autostrada del Sole. Italy's north-south superhighway.         

Dmitri Nabokov, Car Guy.  The many cars in the life of Vladimir's son.    

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